Package : pstotext Vulnerability : missing input sanitising Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-2536 BugTraq ID : 14378 Debian Bug : 319758
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.
Upgrade Instructions --------------------
wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:
apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody --------------------------------