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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2009-1144: Xpdf: Untrusted search path

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2009-1144: Xpdf: Untrusted search path

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
04/09/2009
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

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.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-text-xpdf

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