CVE-2009-1144

Summary

CVECVE-2009-1144
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2009-04-09 15:08:35 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionUntrusted 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.9 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-94 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Foolabs Xpdf 0.5a All All All
Application Foolabs Xpdf 0.7a All All All
Application Foolabs Xpdf 0.91a All All All
Application Foolabs Xpdf 0.91b All All All
Application Foolabs Xpdf 0.91c All All All
Application Foolabs Xpdf 0.92a All All All
Application Foolabs Xpdf 0.92b All All All
Application Foolabs Xpdf 0.92c All All All
Application Foolabs Xpdf 0.92d All All All
Application Foolabs Xpdf 0.92e All All All
Application Foolabs Xpdf 0.93a All All All
Application Foolabs Xpdf 0.93b All All All
Application Foolabs Xpdf 0.93c All All All
Application Foolabs Xpdf 1.00a All All All
Operating System Gentoo Gentoo Linux All All All All
Application Glyphandcog Xpdfreader 0.2 All All All
Application Glyphandcog Xpdfreader 0.3 All All All
Application Glyphandcog Xpdfreader 0.4 All All All
Application Glyphandcog Xpdfreader 0.5 All All All
Application Glyphandcog Xpdfreader 0.6 All All All
Application Glyphandcog Xpdfreader 0.7 All All All
Application Glyphandcog Xpdfreader 0.80 All All All
Application Glyphandcog Xpdfreader 0.90 All All All
Application Glyphandcog Xpdfreader 0.91 All All All
Application Glyphandcog Xpdfreader 0.93 All All All
Application Glyphandcog Xpdfreader 1.00 All All All
Application Glyphandcog Xpdfreader 1.01 All All All
Application Glyphandcog Xpdfreader 2.00 All All All
Application Glyphandcog Xpdfreader 2.01 All All All
Application Glyphandcog Xpdfreader 2.02 All All All
Application Glyphandcog Xpdfreader 2.03 All All All
Application Glyphandcog Xpdfreader 3.00 All All All
Application Glyphandcog Xpdfreader All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
osvdb.org/53529 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 osvdb.org
504 Gateway Time-out af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Gentoo Bug 200023 - app-text/xpdf-3.02-r1 - /etc/xpdfrc setting are not taking effect af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.gentoo.org Vendor Advisory
Gentoo update for xpdf - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Xpdf: Untrusted search path af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
Gentoo Bug 242930 - <app-text/xpdf-3.02-r2 xpdfrc is read from current directory (CVE-2009-1144) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.gentoo.org Vendor Advisory
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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