Executive Summary

Summary
Title PDFjam: Multiple vulnerabilities
Informations
Name GLSA-200903-05 First vendor Publication 2009-03-07
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2009-03-07
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 6.9 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 3.4 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities in the PDFjam scripts allow for local privilege escalation.

Background

PDFjam is a small collection of shell scripts to edit PDF documents, including pdfnup, pdfjoin and pdf90.

Description

* Martin Vaeth reported multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-5843).

* Marcus Meissner of the SUSE Security Team reported that temporary files are created with a predictable name (CVE-2008-5743).

Impact

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.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All PDFjam users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-text/pdfjam-1.20-r1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2008-5843 : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5843
[ 2 ] CVE-2008-5743 : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5743

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-05.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-05.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-03-20 Name : Fedora Core 10 FEDORA-2009-2651 (pdfjam)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_2651.nasl
2009-03-20 Name : Fedora Core 9 FEDORA-2009-2655 (pdfjam)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_2655.nasl
2009-03-13 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200903-05 (pdfjam)
File : nvt/glsa_200903_05.nasl
2009-01-13 Name : FreeBSD Ports: pdfjam
File : nvt/freebsd_pdfjam.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
53305 PDFjam Multiple Scripts Search Path Subversion Local Privilege Escalation
52904 PDFjam Multiple Tmp File Symlink Arbitrary File Overwrite

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2009-2651.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-03-16 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2009-2655.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-03-08 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200903-05.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-01-12 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_a02c9595e01811dda7650030843d3802.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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