Description
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.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Access Vector
- local
- Access Cmplx
- medium
- Auth
- none
- Confidentiality
- complete
- Integrity
- complete
- Availability
- complete
- Weaknesses
- CWE-94
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- FOOLABS
- Published
- 4/9/2009
- Last Modified
- 4/9/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
foolabs : xpdffoolabs : xpdffoolabs : xpdffoolabs : xpdffoolabs : xpdffoolabs : xpdffoolabs : xpdffoolabs : xpdffoolabs : xpdffoolabs : xpdffoolabs : xpdffoolabs : xpdffoolabs : xpdffoolabs : xpdfglyphandcog : xpdfreaderglyphandcog : xpdfreaderglyphandcog : xpdfreaderglyphandcog : xpdfreaderglyphandcog : xpdfreaderglyphandcog : xpdfreaderglyphandcog : xpdfreaderglyphandcog : xpdfreaderglyphandcog : xpdfreaderglyphandcog : xpdfreaderglyphandcog : xpdfreaderglyphandcog : xpdfreaderglyphandcog : xpdfreaderglyphandcog : xpdfreaderglyphandcog : xpdfreaderglyphandcog : xpdfreaderglyphandcog : xpdfreaderglyphandcog : xpdfreader
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