CVE-2014-0466 (GCVE-0-2014-0466)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2014-04-03 15:00
Modified
2024-08-06 09:20
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
The fixps script in a2ps 4.14 does not use the -dSAFER option when executing gs, which allows context-dependent attackers to delete arbitrary files or execute arbitrary commands via a crafted PostScript file.
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