PT-2009-1320 · Pdfjam · Pdfjam

Published 2009-01-05 · Updated 2009-03-20 · CVE-2008-5843

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.6

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions pdfjam (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue concerns untrusted search path vulnerabilities in pdfjam, which could allow local users to gain privileges. This is possible via a Trojan horse program located in either the current working directory or /var/tmp. The vulnerabilities are related to the pdf90, pdfjoin, and pdfnup scripts.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-5843

Affected Products

Pdfjam

References · 6

• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00484.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5843 · Security Note
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00488.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/28/3 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34312 · Note
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252734 · Note