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    CVE-2012-2142

    The error function in Error.cc in poppler before 0.21.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a PDF containing an escape sequence for a terminal emulator.

    Published:Aug 9, 2013
    Last Modified:Nov 21, 2024
    EPS:Jan 9, 2020
    EPSS Score:0.01333
    CVSS Score:7.8

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Freedesktop
    Product
    Poppler
    Vendor
    Opensuse
    Product
    Opensuse
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux
    Vendor
    Xpdfreader
    Product
    Xpdf

    Exploits

    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/09/5http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/09/6http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/09/5http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/09/6

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    No CWE recorded yet

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    No CAPEC recorded yet

    Related CVEs

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    CVE-2025-50420 (CVSS 6.5) — An issue in the pdfseparate utility of freedesktop poppler v25.04.0 allows attackers to cause an infinite recu…
    CVE-2025-52886 (CVSS 5.5) — Poppler is a PDF rendering library. Versions prior to 25.06.0 use `std::atomic_int` for reference counting. Be…
    CVE-2025-43903 (CVSS 4.3) — NSSCryptoSignBackend.cc in Poppler before 25.04.0 does not verify the adbe.pkcs7.sha1 signatures on documents,…
    CVE-2025-32365 (CVSS 4) — Poppler before 25.04.0 allows crafted input files to trigger out-of-bounds reads in the JBIG2Bitmap::combine f…
    CVE-2025-32364 (CVSS 4) — A floating-point exception in the PSStack::roll function of Poppler before 25.04.0 can cause an application to…
    CVE-2024-56378 (CVSS 4.3) — libpoppler.so in Poppler through 24.12.0 has an out-of-bounds read vulnerability within the JBIG2Bitmap::combi…
    CVE-2024-6239 (CVSS 7.5) — A flaw was found in the Poppler's Pdfinfo utility. This issue occurs when using -dests parameter with pdfinfo …
    CVE-2022-38349 (CVSS 6.5) — An issue was discovered in Poppler 22.08.0. There is a reachable assertion in Object.h, will lead to denial of…
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    References

    http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=71bad47ed6a36d825b0d08992c8db56845c71e40
    http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/NEWS?id=2bc48d5369f1dbecfc4db2878f33bdeb80d8d90f
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00049.html
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/09/5
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/09/6
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789936
    http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=71bad47ed6a36d825b0d08992c8db56845c71e40
    http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/NEWS?id=2bc48d5369f1dbecfc4db2878f33bdeb80d8d90f
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00049.html
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/09/5
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/09/6
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789936

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
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    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High