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Fedora Core 2: FEDORA-2004-572 Critical: xpdf Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey December 22, 2004
Dist Fedora Esm H88
An upgrade for xpdf on Fedora addresses buffer overflow vulnerabilities that may result in application crashes and open the door for potential code execution.
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).

917422b5087ab12727223d4e570ade55 SRPMS/xpdf-3.00-3.6.src.rpm

293af32ed4f834a436dcdd1ddf7eab1b x86_64/xpdf-3.00-3.6.x86_64.rpm

ff615294add6b4b8de966ff09168cfd9 x86_64/debug/xpdf-debuginfo-3.00-3.6.x86_64.rpm

2c70874a77f954e1de778457d4889154 i386/xpdf-3.00-3.6.i386.rpm

3222f6518777a6dcef53714a0b050c6d i386/debug/xpdf-debuginfo-3.00-3.6.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can

launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.

Change Log

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Update Instructions

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Name: xpdf
Version: 3.00
Release: 3.6
Summary: A PDF file viewer for the X Window System.

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