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Gentoo GLSA-200502-15 Normal: KOffice Buffer Overflow Vulnerability Risk

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Calendar Grey January 23, 2005
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Gentoo GLSA-200501-33 addresses potential buffer overflow threats in KImage and KWord stemming from Xpdf flaws. Immediate updates advisable.
KPdf and KOffice both include vulnerable Xpdf code to handle PDF files, making them vulnerable to the execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200501-32 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: KPdf, KOffice: Stack overflow in included Xpdf code Date: January 23, 2005 Bugs: #78619, #78620 ID: 200501-32

Synopsis ======= KPdf and KOffice both include vulnerable Xpdf code to handle PDF files, making them vulnerable to the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= KPdf is a KDE-based PDF viewer included in the kdegraphics package. KOffice is an integrated office suite for KDE.
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