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FKIE_CVE-2013-4472

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2014-04-22 14:23 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:57

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

	URL	Tags
	secalert@redhat.com	http://osvdb.org/99064
	secalert@redhat.com	http://poppler.freedesktop.org/releases.html
	secalert@redhat.com	http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/181
	secalert@redhat.com	http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/183
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://osvdb.org/99064
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://poppler.freedesktop.org/releases.html
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/181
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://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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CVE-2013-4472 (GCVE-0-2013-4472)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-04-22 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 16:45

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

redhat redhat root

References

4 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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