CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-2142
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-01-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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.
Affected configurations
• freedesktop poppler (< 0.21.4)
• xpdfreader xpdf 3.02
• redhat enterprise linux 5.0
• redhat enterprise linux 6.0
• opensuse opensuse 12.2
References
- http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=71bad47ed6a36d825b0d08992c8db56845c71e40 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/NEWS?id=2bc48d5369f1dbecfc4db2878f33bdeb80d8d90f Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00049.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/09/5 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/09/6 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789936 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=71bad47ed6a36d825b0d08992c8db56845c71e40 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/NEWS?id=2bc48d5369f1dbecfc4db2878f33bdeb80d8d90f Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00049.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/09/5 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/09/6 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789936 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory