CVE-2009-1144

N/A Unknown
Published: April 09, 2009 Modified: April 23, 2026
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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.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200023
Source: cve@mitre.org
Vendor Advisory
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=242930
Source: cve@mitre.org
Vendor Advisory
http://osvdb.org/53529
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://secunia.com/advisories/34610
Source: cve@mitre.org
Vendor Advisory
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200023
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=242930
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
http://osvdb.org/53529
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://secunia.com/advisories/34610
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200904-07.xml
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34401
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

12 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
N/A / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
0.1%
25th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

Affected Vendors

gentoo foolabs glyphandcog