CVE-2005-2536
N/A
Published: August 10, 2005 at 04:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:15 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorPstotext
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
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
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
v ≤ 1.9.1
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (7)
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/16183/Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-792Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOPatch
Source: [email protected]
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200507-29.xmlVDB Entryx_refsource_XF
Source: [email protected]
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21498Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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