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CVE-2009-1144

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the Gentoo package of Xpdf before 3.02-r2 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse xpdfrc file in the current working directory, related to an unset SYSTEM_XPDFRC macro in a Gentoo build process that uses the poppler library.

Published

2009-04-09T15:08:35.687

Last Modified

2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 6.9 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

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

  • Access Vector: LOCAL
  • Access Complexity: MEDIUM
  • Authentication: NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact: COMPLETE
  • Integrity Impact: COMPLETE
  • Availability Impact: COMPLETE
Exploitability Score

3.4

Impact Score

10.0

Weaknesses
  • Type: Primary
    CWE-94
Affected Vendors & Products
Type Vendor Product Version/Range Vulnerable?
Application foolabs xpdf 0.5a Yes
Application foolabs xpdf 0.7a Yes
Application foolabs xpdf 0.91a Yes
Application foolabs xpdf 0.91b Yes
Application foolabs xpdf 0.91c Yes
Application foolabs xpdf 0.92a Yes
Application foolabs xpdf 0.92b Yes
Application foolabs xpdf 0.92c Yes
Application foolabs xpdf 0.92d Yes
Application foolabs xpdf 0.92e Yes
Application foolabs xpdf 0.93a Yes
Application foolabs xpdf 0.93b Yes
Application foolabs xpdf 0.93c Yes
Application foolabs xpdf 1.00a Yes
Application glyphandcog xpdfreader ≤ 3.02 Yes
Application glyphandcog xpdfreader 0.2 Yes
Application glyphandcog xpdfreader 0.3 Yes
Application glyphandcog xpdfreader 0.4 Yes
Application glyphandcog xpdfreader 0.5 Yes
Application glyphandcog xpdfreader 0.6 Yes
Application glyphandcog xpdfreader 0.7 Yes
Application glyphandcog xpdfreader 0.80 Yes
Application glyphandcog xpdfreader 0.90 Yes
Application glyphandcog xpdfreader 0.91 Yes
Application glyphandcog xpdfreader 0.93 Yes
Application glyphandcog xpdfreader 1.00 Yes
Application glyphandcog xpdfreader 1.01 Yes
Application glyphandcog xpdfreader 2.00 Yes
Application glyphandcog xpdfreader 2.01 Yes
Application glyphandcog xpdfreader 2.02 Yes
Application glyphandcog xpdfreader 2.03 Yes
Application glyphandcog xpdfreader 3.00 Yes
Operating System gentoo gentoo_linux * No
References