PT-2020-7198 · Poppler · Poppler

Phillips Wolf · Published 2013-08-26 · Updated 2020-01-15 · CVE-2012-2142

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions poppler versions prior to 0.21.4

Description The issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a PDF containing an escape sequence for a terminal emulator. This is due to an error in the error function in Error.cc.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.21.4, update to version 0.21.4 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider avoiding the use of PDFs from untrusted sources until the update is applied.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-2142

MGASA-2013-0261

Affected Products

Poppler

References · 15

• 🔥 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/09/5 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/09/6 · Exploit
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2013-0261.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-2142 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=71bad47ed6a36d825b0d08992c8db56845c71e40 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2142 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-2142 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/NEWS?id=2bc48d5369f1dbecfc4db2878f33bdeb80d8d90f · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-2142 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2013-0261 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00049.html · Patch
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789936 · Note
• http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2013&m=slackware-security.496284 · Note
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11061 · Note
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/9097 · Telegram Post