Debian: 202307-2 Critical: Evince Memory Corruption Vulnerability
gentoo
January 2, 2003
The pdftops filter in the Xpdf and CUPS packages contains an integer overflow that can be exploited to gain the privileges of the target user or in some cases the increased privile...
Summary
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From iDEFENSE advisory:
"The pdftops filter in the Xpdf and CUPS packages contains an integer overflow that can be exploited to gain the privileges of the target user or in some cases the increased privileges of the 'lp' user if installed setuid. There are multiple ways of exploiting this vulnerability."
Read the full advisory at /us-en
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running app-text/xpdf-1.01-r1 or earlier update their systems as follows:
emerge rsync emerge xpdf emerge clean
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PACKAGE : xpdf
SUMMARY : integer overflow
EXPLOIT : local and remote
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