CVE-2013-4472 (GCVE-0-2013-4472)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-04-22 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 16:45
VLAI
Summary
The openTempFile function in goo/gfile.cc in Xpdf and Poppler 0.24.3 and earlier, when running on a system other than Unix, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files with predictable names.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/183 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://osvdb.org/99064 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/181 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://poppler.freedesktop.org/releases.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2013-10-26 00:00
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