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Gentoo: GLSA-200411-30 Normal: pdftohtml Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey November 23, 2004
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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

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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 ======= pdftohtml includes vulnerable Xpdf code to handle PDF files, making it vulnerable to execution of arbitrary code upon converting a malicious PDF file.
Background ========= 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 ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-text/pdftohtml <= 0.36 >= 0.36-r1
========== Xpdf is vulnerable to multiple integer overflows, as described in GLSA 200410-20.
Impact ===== An att...

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