CVE-2005-2471 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2005-2471 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 102527 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2005:019, published Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 01:42:50 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:14:41 2025