CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-1144

6.9 MEDIUM Published 2009-04-09 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-04-09
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-94

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.

Affected configurations

• foolabs xpdf 0.5a • foolabs xpdf 0.7a • foolabs xpdf 0.91a • foolabs xpdf 0.91b • foolabs xpdf 0.91c • foolabs xpdf 0.92a • foolabs xpdf 0.92b • foolabs xpdf 0.92c • foolabs xpdf 0.92d • foolabs xpdf 0.92e • foolabs xpdf 0.93a • foolabs xpdf 0.93b • foolabs xpdf 0.93c • foolabs xpdf 1.00a • glyphandcog xpdfreader (<= 3.02) • glyphandcog xpdfreader 0.2 • glyphandcog xpdfreader 0.3 • glyphandcog xpdfreader 0.4 • glyphandcog xpdfreader 0.5 • glyphandcog xpdfreader 0.6 • glyphandcog xpdfreader 0.7 • glyphandcog xpdfreader 0.80 • glyphandcog xpdfreader 0.90 • glyphandcog xpdfreader 0.91 • glyphandcog xpdfreader 0.93 • glyphandcog xpdfreader 1.00 • glyphandcog xpdfreader 1.01 • glyphandcog xpdfreader 2.00 • glyphandcog xpdfreader 2.01 • glyphandcog xpdfreader 2.02 • glyphandcog xpdfreader 2.03 • glyphandcog xpdfreader 3.00

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness

References