CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-2536

7.5 HIGH Published 2005-08-10 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-08-10
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

pstotext before 1.8g does not properly use the "-dSAFER" option when calling Ghostscript to extract plain text from PostScript and PDF files, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a malicious PostScript file.

Affected configurations

• pstotext pstotext (<= 1.9.1)

References