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Fedora Core 4 Update: poppler-0.4.4-1.1 Print E-mail
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Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Fedora Chris Evans discovered several flaws in the way poppler processes PDF files. An attacker could construct a carefully crafted PDF file that could cause poppler 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-2005-026
2006-01-10
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Product     : Fedora Core 4
Name        : poppler
Version     : 0.4.4                      
Release     : 1.1                  
Summary     : PDF rendering library
Description :
Poppler, a PDF rendering library, it's a fork of the xpdf PDF
viewer developed by Derek Noonburg of Glyph and Cog, LLC.

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Update Information:

Chris Evans discovered several flaws in the way poppler
processes PDF files. An attacker could construct a carefully
crafted PDF file that could cause poppler 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 Kristian Høgsberg  0.4.4-1.1
- Update to 0.4.4 release and drop poppler-0.4.3-CVE-2005-3191.patch.


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This update can be downloaded from:
  http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/

3690ab8e7d8e717f6fe2580a81738c579996357f  SRPMS/poppler-0.4.4-1.1.src.rpm
1597b8461a8bd1972aee62d4e1b2027dcf2bbc42  ppc/poppler-0.4.4-1.1.ppc.rpm
363d5fcff948292d5f60663309df7bd147ddb7e7  ppc/poppler-devel-0.4.4-1.1.ppc.rpm
e372992802a3e1867dcbab31e4a69720065809c8  ppc/debug/poppler-debuginfo-0.4.4-1.1.ppc.rpm
6c30672e65b4f257812f0a6c1e4443aa8354e687  x86_64/poppler-0.4.4-1.1.x86_64.rpm
9ad63986347bb0de8cadb1fca0df69d865cbef4a  x86_64/poppler-devel-0.4.4-1.1.x86_64.rpm
ed87f5deb75bcef2cfe15d2ea5a33991eb4227cb  x86_64/debug/poppler-debuginfo-0.4.4-1.1.x86_64.rpm
1571c13ca07473bf880dad9712c2505fdf7d4e71  i386/poppler-0.4.4-1.1.i386.rpm
798f241bcec802e7d0c6ef09aebdaebd4f112d9c  i386/poppler-devel-0.4.4-1.1.i386.rpm
2f18e087f3eb11a56204ef3caaedba900ba86eb9  i386/debug/poppler-debuginfo-0.4.4-1.1.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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