CVE-2005-2471

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Debian Linux Security Advisory 1021-1

Posted Apr 1, 2006

Authored by Debian | Site debian.org

Debian Security Advisory DSA 1021-1 - Max Vozeler from the Debian Audit Project discovered that pstopnm, a converter from Postscript to the PBM, PGM and PNM formats, launches Ghostscript in an insecure manner, which might lead to the execution of arbitrary shell commands, when converting specially crafted Postscript files.

tags | advisory, arbitrary, shell

systems | linux, debian

advisories | CVE-2005-2471

SHA-256 | c805afd688bd7387640c3694a50b68d7630757d17cd7512253e04e23bcfd57c8

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Ubuntu Security Notice 164-1

Posted Aug 12, 2005

Authored by Ubuntu | Site ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-164-1 - Max Vozeler discovered that the the pstopnm conversion tool did not use the -dSAFER option when calling ghostscript. This option prohibits file operations and calling commands within PostScript code. This flaw could be exploited by an attacker to execute arbitrary code if he tricked an user (or an automatic server) into processing a specially crafted PostScript document with pstopnm.

tags | advisory, arbitrary

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2005-2471

SHA-256 | e7bee8ebff81a32f1d1b893ba21274a04bb055f8c81980d772a51a23273a551d

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