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over 2 years ago

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Disclosure

Jul 24, 2005

Discovery

Unknown

Dates

Exploit

Unknown

Solution

Unknown

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Description

(Description Provided by CVE) : 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.

Classification

Unknown or Incomplete

Products

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References

Security Tracker: 1014752
Secunia Advisory ID: 16184 16336 16392 16395 16481 16517 16535 16743 18330 19436
CVE ID: 2005-2471 (see also: NVD)
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20050901-01-U.asc
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=319757
Other Advisory URL: http://frontal1.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:133
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200508-04.xml
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_19_sr.html
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-164-1
http://www.us.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1021
RedHat RHSA: RHSA-2005:743

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Credit

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CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 7.5
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2005-08-05 | Disagree?

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