ubuntu · CVE-2005-2471

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Priority: medium Published: 2005-08-05 04:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-07-17 16:36:13 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2005-2471 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (netpbm-free), 4 status rows across 4 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, upstream): released 3, needs-triage 1.

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.

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