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Gentoo: GLSA-200903-05 Normal: PDFjam Local Escalation Threats

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Calendar Grey March 7, 2009
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Several security flaws within PDFjam scripts pose a risk of local privilege escalation. Users must update immediately.
Multiple vulnerabilities in the PDFjam scripts allow for local privilege escalation.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200903-05 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: PDFjam: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: March 07, 2009 Bugs: #252734 ID: 200903-05

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.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-text/pdfjam < 1.20-r1 >= 1.20-r1
========== * Martin Vaeth reported multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-5843).
* Marcus Meissner of the SUSE Security Team reported that temporary ...

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