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Gentoo GLSA 200412-24: Normal Severity Xpdf Code Execution Threat

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Calendar Grey December 28, 2004
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Explore the potential for integer overflows in Xpdf and GPdf that may result in unauthorized code execution on Gentoo systems. Understand strategies to reduce vulnerabilities.
New integer overflows were discovered in Xpdf, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200412-24 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Xpdf, GPdf: New integer overflows Date: December 28, 2004 Bugs: #75191, #75201 ID: 200412-24

Synopsis ======= New integer overflows were discovered in Xpdf, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code. GPdf includes Xpdf code and therefore is vulnerable to the same issues.
Background ========= Xpdf is an open source viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. GPdf is a Gnome-based PDF viewer that includes some Xpdf code.
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