Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1220-1 pstotext -- insecure file name quoting

Date Reported:

26 Nov 2006

Affected Packages:

pstotext

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 356988.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-5869.

More information:

Brian May discovered that pstotext, a utility to extract plain text from Postscript and PDF files, performs insufficient quoting of file names, which allows execution of arbitrary shell commands.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.9-1sarge2. The build for the mipsel architecture is not yet available due to technical problems with the build host.

For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 1.9-4.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.9-4.

We recommend that you upgrade your pstotext package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge2.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge2.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge2_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge2_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge2_arm.deb
HPPA:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge2_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge2_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge2_ia64.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge2_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge2_mips.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge2_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge2_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge2_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.