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Gentoo: 200501-28 Normal: Xpdf, GPdf Stack Overflow Risk

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A memory corruption vulnerability in Xpdf and GPdf might enable malicious actors to run arbitrary code. Users are advised to update immediately.
A stack overflow was discovered in Xpdf, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200501-28 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Xpdf, GPdf: Stack overflow in Decrypt::makeFileKey2 Date: January 21, 2005 Bugs: #77888, #78128 ID: 200501-28

Synopsis ======= A stack overflow was discovered in Xpdf, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code. GPdf includes Xpdf code and therefore is vulnerable to the same issue.
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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