Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2005-2536 First vendor Publication 2005-08-10
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2024-11-20

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-2536

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200507-29 (pstotext)
File : nvt/glsa_200507_29.nasl
2008-01-17 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 792-1 (pstotext)
File : nvt/deb_792_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
18251 pstotext Arbitrary Postscript Code Execution

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2005-09-06 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-792.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2005-08-01 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200507-29.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

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
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