Vulnerability in Freedesktop Poppler
CVE-2013-4472
The openTempFile function in goo/gfile.cc in Xpdf and Poppler 0.24.3 and earlier, when running on a system other than Unix, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files with predictable names.
EPSS: 0.004 (29.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Freedesktop Poppler — versions 0.24.0, 0.24.1, 0.24.2
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secalert@redhat.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)
- secalert@redhat.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)