Debian Security Advisory
DSA-792-1 pstotext -- missing input sanitising
- Date Reported:
- 31 Aug 2005
- Affected Packages:
- pstotext
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 319758.
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 14378.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-2536. - More information:
-
Max Vozeler discovered that pstotext, a utility to extract text from PostScript and PDF files, did not execute ghostscript with the -dSAFER argument, which prevents potential malicious operations to happen.
For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.8g-5woody1.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.9-1sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.9-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your pstotext package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.8g-5woody1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.8g-5woody1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.8g.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.8g-5woody1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.8g-5woody1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.8g-5woody1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.8g-5woody1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.8g-5woody1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.8g-5woody1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.8g-5woody1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.8g-5woody1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.8g-5woody1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.8g-5woody1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.8g-5woody1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.8g-5woody1_sparc.deb
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.