Fedora Core 3: FEDORA-2004-574 Important: xpdf Buffer Overflow
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December 22, 2004
This package fixes a buffer overflow which allows attackers to cause the xpdf application to crash, and possibly to execute arbitrary code
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.
This package fixes a buffer overflow which allows attackers to cause the
xpdf application to crash, and possibly to execute arbitrary code. The
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures projects (cve.mitre.org) has assigned
the name CAN-2004-1125 to this issue.
- Applied patch to fix CAN-2004-1125 (bug #143500).
adb7520d574883b3aa53c7039beed853 SRPMS/xpdf-3.00-10.1.src.rpm
0557f1caa236f794d9f71fa31a16ab9f x86_64/xpdf-3.00-10.1.x86_64.rpm
abc2e6776d3999cd886858f77eef7112 x86_64/debug/xpdf-debuginfo-3.00-10.1.x86_64.rpm
110b6b2768f35612db180f31a6db554a i386/xpdf-3.00-10.1.i386.rpm
73fc71cb08839a3e4ef2debc0f637591 i386/debug/xpdf-debuginfo-3.00-10.1.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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Name: xpdf
Version: 3.00
Release: 10.1
Summary: A PDF file viewer for the X Window System.
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