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Fedora 10: poppler-0.8.7-6 Security Advisory for Jbig2 Issues

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Calendar Grey June 26, 2009
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Tackling jbig2 security vulnerabilities in Poppler for Fedora 10 through patch implementations.
An update to address jbig2-related security issues.

Summary

Poppler, a PDF rendering library, is a fork of the xpdf PDF

viewer developed by Derek Noonburg of Glyph and Cog, LLC.

Update Information:

An update to address jbig2-related security issues.

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Change Log

* Fri Jan 23 2009 Rex Dieter - 0.8.7-6 - use backported jbig2_security patch from debian/ubuntu - poppler-data-0.2.1 - --enable-libjpeg (speed) - track sonames * Tue Jan 20 2009 Rex Dieter - 0.8.7-5 - patch to workaround okular rendering hyperlinks (#480357) - add needed scriptlets - nuke rpaths * Sun Jan 4 2009 Matthias Clasen - 0.8.7-4 - Fix a problem with large images * Tue Sep 16 2008 Rex Dieter - 0.8.7-2 - cleanup qt3 hack - %description cosmetics

References


[ 1 ] Bug #496942 - CVE-2009-0146 CVE-2009-0147 CVE-2009-0166 CVE-2009-0799 CVE-2009-0800 CVE-2009-1179 CVE-2009-1180 CVE-2009-1181 CVE-2009-1182 CVE-2009-1183 CVE-2009-1187 CVE-2009-1188 poppler various flaws [F10] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496942

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update poppler' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: poppler
Product: Fedora 10
Version: 0.8.7
Release: 6.fc10
URL: http://poppler.freedesktop.org/
Summary: PDF rendering library

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