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CVE-2012-2142

CVE-2012-2142

3Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackepss 2.9%
exploitation probability
2.9%top 14% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
Affected products
poppler · poppler
References
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=71bad47ed6a36d825b0d08992c8db56845c71e40http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/NEWS?id=2bc48d5369f1dbecfc4db2878f33bdeb80d8d90fhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00049.htmlhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789936http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/09/5http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/09/6