vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2012-2142: xpdf: Insufficient sanitization of escape sequences in the error messages

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jan 9, 2020
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

The error function in Error.cc in poppler before 0.21.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a PDF containing an escape sequence for a terminal emulator.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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