Poppler, a PDF rendering library, is a fork of the xpdf PDF
viewer developed by Derek Noonburg of Glyph and Cog, LLC.
Update Information:
This build addresses several recent security issues.
* Sun Oct 25 2009 Rex Dieter
[ 1 ] Bug #526915 - CVE-2009-3603 xpdf/poppler: SplashBitmap::SplashBitmap integer overflow
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=526915
[ 2 ] Bug #526911 - CVE-2009-3604 xpdf/poppler: Splash::drawImage integer overflow and missing allocation return value check
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=526911
[ 3 ] Bug #526877 - CVE-2009-3606 xpdf/poppler: PSOutputDev::doImageL1Sep integer overflow
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=526877
[ 4 ] Bug #526924 - CVE-2009-3607 poppler: create_surface_from_thumbnail_data integer overflow
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=526924
[ 5 ] Bug #526637 - CVE-2009-3608 xpdf/poppler: integer overflow in ObjectStream::ObjectStream (oCERT-2009-016)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=526637
[ 6 ] Bug #526893 - CVE-2009-3609 xpdf/poppler: ImageStream::ImageStream integer overflow
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=526893
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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