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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in pstotext 1.9.1. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:
pstotext before 1.8g does not properly use the "-dSAFER" option when calling Ghostscript to extract plain text from PostScript and PDF files, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a malicious PostScript file.
The bug was discovered 07/25/2005. The weakness was released 08/10/2005 by Max Vozeler with Debian (Website). The advisory is shared for download at gentoo.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2005-2536 since 08/10/2005. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.
The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 16 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 19562 (Debian DSA-792-1 : pstotext - missing input sanitising), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Debian Local Security Checks and running in the context l.
Upgrading to version 1.8g eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 3 weeks after the disclosure of the vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (21498) and Tenable (19562).
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Class: Privileges managementCWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
ATT&CK: T1068
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Nessus ID: 19562
Nessus Name: Debian DSA-792-1 : pstotext - missing input sanitising
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OpenVAS ID: 55200
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 792-1 (pstotext)
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Upgrade: pstotext 1.8g
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Sources
Advisory: gentoo.orgResearcher: Max Vozeler
Organization: Debian
Status: Not defined
CVE: CVE-2005-2536 (🔍)
X-Force: 21498
Vulnerability Center: 9122 - Pstotext <1.8g Improper Usage of \, Medium
SecurityFocus: 14378 - PSToText Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability
Secunia: 16183 - pstotext Arbitrary Postscript Code Execution Vulnerability, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 18251 - PSToText - Arbitrary Code Execution Issue
Entry
Created: 03/11/2015 23:39Updated: 06/09/2019 10:18
Changes: 03/11/2015 23:39 (76), 06/09/2019 10:18 (6)
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