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Foresight: poppler Print E-mail
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Posted by Bill Keys   
Previous versions of the poppler package are vulnerable to an int overflow in included xpdf code, which can be exploited via a specially-crafted PDF file to execute arbitrary code.
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Foresight Linux Essential Advisory: 2007-0045-1
Published: 2007-08-14

Rating: Major

Updated Versions:
    poppler=/foresight.rpath.org at fl:1-devel//1/0.5.9-2-1
    group-dist=/foresight.rpath.org at fl:1-devel//1/1.3.2-0.8-2

References:
    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-3387
    https://issues.foresightlinux.org/browse/FL-471
    https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1596
    https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1604 

Description:
    Previous versions of the poppler package are vulnerable to an int overflow
    in included xpdf code, which can be exploited via a specially-crafted PDF
    file to execute arbitrary code. 

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Copyright 2007 Foresight Linux Project
This file is distributed under the terms of the MIT License.
A copy is available at http://www.foresightlinux.org/permanent/mit-license.html
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