CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-5843
4.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-01-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
Multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities in pdfjam allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse program in (1) the current working directory or (2) /var/tmp, related to the (a) pdf90, (b) pdfjoin, and (c) pdfnup scripts.
Affected configurations
• pdfjam pdfjam nil
References
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/28/3 openwall.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34312 secunia.com
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252734 bugs.gentoo.org
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00484.html www.redhat.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00488.html www.redhat.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/28/3 openwall.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34312 secunia.com
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252734 bugs.gentoo.org
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00484.html www.redhat.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00488.html www.redhat.com