CVE-2005-2471
N/A
Published: August 5, 2005 at 04:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:14 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorNetpbm
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 4%
Description
pstopnm in netpbm does not properly use the "-dSAFER" option when calling Ghostscript to convert a PostScript file into a (1) PBM, (2) PGM, or (3) PNM file, which allows external user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary commands.
Remediation
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References (13)
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/16184Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/18330Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/19436Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1021Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Source: [email protected]
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_19_sr.htmlQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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