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Gentoo: GLSA 200502-10 Moderate: Pdftohtml Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey February 9, 2005
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Gentoo Linux Advisory GLSA 202112-12 highlights vulnerabilities in pdftohtml that could allow unauthorized code execution.
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 200502-10 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: pdftohtml: Vulnerabilities in included Xpdf Date: February 09, 2005 Bugs: #78629 ID: 200502-10

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-r3 >= 0.36-r3
========== Xpdf is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, as described in GLSA 200501-28.
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