Symlink Attack Vulnerability in Xpdf and Poppler

CVE-2013-4472 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

The openTempFile function in goo/gfile.cc in Xpdf and Poppler 0.24.3 and earlier, when running on a system other than Unix, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files with predictable names.

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