The openTempFile function in goo/gfile.cc in Xpdf and...
Low severity
Unreviewed
Published
May 17, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated Jan 28, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Apr 22, 2014
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 17, 2022
Last updated
Jan 28, 2023
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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