National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-1144
Original release date:04/09/2009
Last revised:04/16/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
3.4
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: BID
Name: 34401
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200904-07
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34610
Type: Advisory
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 53529
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=242930
Type: Advisory
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200023
Type: Advisory