RCE in Foolabs Xpdf
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.
Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)
EPSS: 0.004 (32.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Foolabs Xpdf — versions 0.5a, 0.7a, 0.91a
- Gentoo Gentoo_linux
- Glyphandcog Xpdfreader — versions 0.2, 0.3, 0.4
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)