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Fedora Core 3 Update: gpdf-2.8.2-7.2 Print E-mail
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Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Fedora Chris Evans discovered several flaws in the way CUPS processes PDF files. An attacker could construct a carefully crafted PDF file that could cause CUPS to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code when opened. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project assigned the names CVE-2005-3624, CVE-2005-3625, CVE-2005-3626, and CVE-2005-3627 to these issues.
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-025
2006-01-10
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Product     : Fedora Core 3
Name        : gpdf
Version     : 2.8.2                      
Release     : 7.2                  
Summary     : viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files for GNOME
Description :
This is GPdf, a viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files for
GNOME. GPdf is based on the Xpdf program and uses additional GNOME
libraries for better desktop integration.

GPdf includes the gpdf application, a Bonobo control for PDF display
which can be embedded in Nautilus, and a Nautilus property page for
PDF files.

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Update Information:

Chris Evans discovered several flaws in the way CUPS
processes PDF files. An attacker could construct a carefully
crafted PDF file that could cause CUPS to crash or possibly
execute arbitrary code when opened. The Common
Vulnerabilities and Exposures project assigned the names
CVE-2005-3624, CVE-2005-3625, CVE-2005-3626, and
CVE-2005-3627 to these issues.

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* Tue Jan 10 2006 Ray Strode  2.8.2-7.2
- Apply fix for CVE-2005-3624 (also covers CVE-2005-3193) 
  (bug 176866)


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This update can be downloaded from:
  http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/

3f7a8f70d4f2a8f18d823c572ad99755361adf23  SRPMS/gpdf-2.8.2-7.2.src.rpm
e0b1860bc92e3b69c60dbe53548ca709223d1822  x86_64/gpdf-2.8.2-7.2.x86_64.rpm
42a7a344a3d3e040bf37e002c788f8ca5fde8dba  x86_64/debug/gpdf-debuginfo-2.8.2-7.2.x86_64.rpm
cada2bbc6925dbb27ea17317f9f8c31488d33cd0  i386/gpdf-2.8.2-7.2.i386.rpm
9280b56de65f4acedd3c13b5ff455fdc610463ae  i386/debug/gpdf-debuginfo-2.8.2-7.2.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.  
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