glsa-200903-05.xml


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<?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 "&gt;=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>