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Gentoo: GLSA-200507-30 Critical: Libpng Integer Overflow Issue

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Calendar Grey July 31, 2005
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Gentoo Linux Security Bulletin GLSA 202310-15 warns of critical flaws in pdf-to-text, recommending immediate upgrades.
pstotext contains a vulnerability which can potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200507-29 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: pstotext: Remote execution of arbitrary code Date: July 31, 2005 Bugs: #100245 ID: 200507-29

Synopsis ======= pstotext contains a vulnerability which can potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= pstotext is a program that works with GhostScript to extract plain text from PostScript and PDF files.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-text/pstotext < 1.8g-r1 >= 1.8g-r1
========== Max Vozeler reported that pstotext calls the GhostScript interpreter on untrusted PostScript files without specifying the -dSAFER option.
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