CVE-2008-5843

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Summary

CVECVE-2008-5843
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2009-01-05 20:30:02 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionMultiple 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.6 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Pdfjam Pdfjam _nil_ All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
oss-security - Re: CVE request - pdfjam af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 openwall.com
Gentoo Bug 252734 - app-text/pdfjam <1.20-r1 Multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-5743, CVE-2008-5843) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.gentoo.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: pdfjam-1.21-1.fc9 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: pdfjam-1.21-1.fc10 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Fedora update for pdfjam - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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