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Gentoo: 202303-18 Alert: pdf2html Code Compromise via Threatening PDFs

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Calendar Grey January 10, 2005
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Gentoo Linux Advisory GLSA 202303-45 outlines security flaws found in pstoedit's processing of malformed PostScript files.
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 200501-13 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: pdftohtml: Vulnerabilities in included Xpdf Date: January 10, 2005 Bugs: #75200 ID: 200501-13

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-r2 >= 0.36-r2
========== Xpdf is vulnerable to integer overflows, as described in GLSA 200412-24.
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