CVE-2013-4472
First published: Tue Apr 22 2014(Updated: )
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.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| freedesktop poppler | <=0.24.3 | |
| freedesktop poppler | =0.24.0 | |
| freedesktop poppler | =0.24.1 | |
| freedesktop poppler | =0.24.2 |
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- vendor/freedesktop
- canonical/freedesktop poppler
- version/freedesktop poppler/0.24.3
- version/freedesktop poppler/0.24.0
- version/freedesktop poppler/0.24.1
- version/freedesktop poppler/0.24.2