CVE-2005-2471

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.

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References

• MITRE
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

• USN-164-1
• netpbm vulnerability
• 11 August 2005

Other references

• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-2471