Arbitrary Command Execution via Insecure Ghostscript Invocation in pstotext

CVE-2005-2536 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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