Gentoo: GLSA-200411-30 Normal: pdftohtml Code Execution Risk
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November 23, 2004
pdftohtml includes vulnerable Xpdf code to handle PDF files, making it vulnerable to execution of arbitrary code upon converting a malicious PDF file
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200411-30
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: pdftohtml: Vulnerabilities in included Xpdf
Date: November 23, 2004
Bugs: #69019
ID: 200411-30
Synopsis
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pdftohtml includes vulnerable Xpdf code to handle PDF files, making it
vulnerable to execution of arbitrary code upon converting a malicious
PDF file.
Background
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pdftohtml is a utility to convert PDF files to HTML or XML formats. It
makes use of Xpdf code to decode PDF files.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 app-text/pdftohtml <= 0.36 >= 0.36-r1
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Xpdf is vulnerable to multiple integer overflows, as described in GLSA
200410-20.
Impact
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An att...
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