CVE-2014-0466: GNU a2ps

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• GNU a2ps: version 4.14 only

Published 2014-04-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.