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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200903-05 |
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Severity: Normal |
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Title: PDFjam: Multiple vulnerabilities |
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Date: March 07, 2009 |
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Bugs: #252734 |
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ID: 200903-05 |
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Synopsis |
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Multiple vulnerabilities in the PDFjam scripts allow for local |
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privilege escalation. |
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Background |
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PDFjam is a small collection of shell scripts to edit PDF documents, |
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including pdfnup, pdfjoin and pdf90. |
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Affected packages |
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected |
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1 app-text/pdfjam < 1.20-r1 >= 1.20-r1 |
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Description |
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* Martin Vaeth reported multiple untrusted search path |
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vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-5843). |
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* Marcus Meissner of the SUSE Security Team reported that temporary |
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files are created with a predictable name (CVE-2008-5743). |
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Impact |
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A local attacker could place a specially crafted Python module in the |
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current working directory or the /var/tmp directory, and entice a user |
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to run the PDFjam scripts, leading to the execution of arbitrary code |
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with the privileges of the user running the application. A local |
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attacker could also leverage symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary |
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files. |
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Workaround |
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There is no known workaround at this time. |
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Resolution |
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All PDFjam users should upgrade to the latest version: |
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# emerge --sync |
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-text/pdfjam-1.20-r1" |
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References |
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[ 1 ] CVE-2008-5843 |
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http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5843 |
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[ 2 ] CVE-2008-5743 |
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http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5743 |
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Availability |
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at |
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the Gentoo Security Website: |
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http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-05.xml |
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Concerns? |
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the |
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confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost |
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importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to |
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security@g.o or alternatively, you may file a bug at |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org. |
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License |
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Copyright 2009 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text |
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belongs to its owner(s). |
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The contents of this document are licensed under the |
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Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license. |
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 |