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diff --git a/metadata/glsa/glsa-200903-05.xml b/metadata/glsa/glsa-200903-05.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..0aaef4a602a3 --- /dev/null +++ b/metadata/glsa/glsa-200903-05.xml @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> +<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> +<glsa id="200903-05"> + <title>PDFjam: Multiple vulnerabilities</title> + <synopsis> + Multiple vulnerabilities in the PDFjam scripts allow for local privilege + escalation. + </synopsis> + <product type="ebuild">pdfjam</product> + <announced>2009-03-07</announced> + <revised count="01">2009-03-07</revised> + <bug>252734</bug> + <access>local</access> + <affected> + <package name="app-text/pdfjam" auto="yes" arch="*"> + <unaffected range="ge">1.20-r1</unaffected> + <vulnerable range="lt">1.20-r1</vulnerable> + </package> + </affected> + <background> + <p> + PDFjam is a small collection of shell scripts to edit PDF documents, + including pdfnup, pdfjoin and pdf90. + </p> + </background> + <description> + <ul> + <li> + Martin Vaeth reported multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities + (CVE-2008-5843). + </li> + <li>Marcus Meissner of the SUSE Security Team reported that + temporary files are created with a predictable name (CVE-2008-5743). + </li> + </ul> <p> + </p> + </description> + <impact type="normal"> + <p> + A local attacker could place a specially crafted Python module in the + current working directory or the /var/tmp directory, and entice a user + to run the PDFjam scripts, leading to the execution of arbitrary code + with the privileges of the user running the application. A local + attacker could also leverage symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary + files. + </p> + </impact> + <workaround> + <p> + There is no known workaround at this time. + </p> + </workaround> + <resolution> + <p> + All PDFjam users should upgrade to the latest version: + </p> + <code> + # emerge --sync + # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-text/pdfjam-1.20-r1"</code> + </resolution> + <references> + <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5843">CVE-2008-5843</uri> + <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5743">CVE-2008-5743</uri> + </references> + <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2009-01-23T21:30:23Z"> + p-y + </metadata> + <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2009-02-12T16:57:17Z"> + rbu + </metadata> + <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2009-02-12T16:57:35Z"> + rbu + </metadata> +</glsa> |