ID CVE-2009-1144 Type cve Reporter cve@mitre.org Modified 2019-03-06T16:30:00
Description
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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