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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1220-1 (pstotext)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to pstotext announced via advisory DSA 1220-1. 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.
Solution
Solution
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. https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201220-1