PT-2009-3706 · Gentoo · Xpdf+1

Erik Wallin · Published 2009-04-09 · Updated 2019-03-06 · CVE-2009-1144

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.9

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Xpdf versions prior to 3.02-r2

Description The issue is related to an untrusted search path vulnerability in the Gentoo package of Xpdf. This vulnerability allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse xpdfrc file in the current working directory. The problem is connected to an unset SYSTEM XPDFRC macro in a Gentoo build process that utilizes the poppler library.

Recommendations For Xpdf versions prior to 3.02-r2, update to version 3.02-r2 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Code Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-94

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-1144

Affected Products

Xpdf

Poppler

References · 7

• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=242930 · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200904-07.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200023 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1144 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34610 · Vendor Advisory
• http://osvdb.org/53529 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/34401 · Note