CVE-2005-2536

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-08-10 · updated 2026-06-16

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 products

Pstotext: through 1.9.1

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/16183/
http://secunia.com/advisories/16305
http://secunia.com/advisories/16624
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-792
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200507-29.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14378
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21498
http://secunia.com/advisories/16183/
http://secunia.com/advisories/16305
http://secunia.com/advisories/16624
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-792
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200507-29.xml

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