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Fedora 32: 2021-4a437fe032 Critical: Xpdf DoS Attack Fix

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Calendar Grey February 10, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Essential revisions for Fedora address various vulnerabilities in xpdf. Safeguard your environments by applying the most recent updates.
Update to 4.03

Summary

Xpdf is an X Window System based viewer for Portable Document Format

(PDF) files. Xpdf is a small and efficient program which uses

standard X fonts.

Update to 4.03. Fixes CVE-2020-35376 and CVE-2020-25725.

* Tue Feb 2 2021 Tom Callaway - 1:4.03-1

- update to 4.03

* Thu Jan 28 2021 Fedora Release Engineering - 1:4.02-6

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_34_Mass_Rebuild

* Wed Jul 29 2020 Fedora Release Engineering - 1:4.02-5

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_33_Mass_Rebuild

[ 1 ] Bug #1899520 - CVE-2020-25725 xpdf: sending crafted a PDF document to the pdftops tool could result in DoS

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1899520

[ 2 ] Bug #1911349 - CVE-2020-35376 xpdf: stack consumption due to an incorrect subroutine reference in a Type 1C font charstring

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1911349

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-4a437fe032' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Product: Fedora 32
Version: 4.03
Release: 1.fc32
Summary: A PDF file viewer for the X Window System

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