CVE-2009-1144
mediumpriority · track · 28EPSS 0.004 · 34 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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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affected products (33)
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references (12)
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- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200023enisa_euvd
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=242930enisa_euvd
- http://osvdb.org/53529enisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34610enisa_euvd
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200904-07.xmlenisa_euvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34401enisa_euvd
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200023Vendor Advisorynvd
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=242930Vendor Advisorynvd
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