FKIE_CVE-2013-4472

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2014-04-22 14:23 - Updated: 2026-05-06 22:30
Severity
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://osvdb.org/99064
secalert@redhat.comhttp://poppler.freedesktop.org/releases.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/181
secalert@redhat.comhttp://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/183
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://osvdb.org/99064
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://poppler.freedesktop.org/releases.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/181
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/183
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
freedesktop poppler *
freedesktop poppler 0.24.0
freedesktop poppler 0.24.1
freedesktop poppler 0.24.2
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