Debian Security Advisory
xpdf -- local exploit
- Date Reported:
- 10 Sep 2000
- Affected Packages:
- xpdf
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2000-0727, CVE-2000-0728.
- More information:
- xpdf as distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 suffered from two problems:
- creation of temporary files was not done safely which made xpdf vulnerable to a symlink attack.
- when handling URLs in documents no checking was done for shell metacharacters before starting the browser. This makes it possible to construct a document which cause xpdf to run arbitrary commands when the user views a URL.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian 2.2 (potato)
- Source:
-
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/xpdf_0.90-7.diff.gz
-
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/xpdf_0.90-7.dsc
-
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/xpdf_0.90.orig.tar.gz
- alpha:
-
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/xpdf_0.90-7_alpha.deb
- arm:
-
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/xpdf_0.90-7_arm.deb
- i386:
-
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/xpdf_0.90-7_i386.deb
- m68k:
-
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/xpdf_0.90-7_m68k.deb
- powerpc:
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http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/xpdf_0.90-7_powerpc.deb
- sparc:
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http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/xpdf_0.90-7_sparc.deb