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Gentoo: GLSA-200506-06 Normal: libextractor Arbitrary Code Execution

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Calendar Grey June 9, 2005
Scroller Gentoo
The libextractor package in Gentoo has been identified with several overflow vulnerabilities, raising concerns over potential arbitrary code execution. Urgent measures are necessary.
libextractor is affected by several overflow vulnerabilities in the PDF, Real and PNG extractors, making it vulnerable to execution of arbitrary code

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200506-06 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: libextractor: Multiple overflow vulnerabilities Date: June 09, 2005 Bugs: #79704 ID: 200506-06

Synopsis ======= libextractor is affected by several overflow vulnerabilities in the PDF, Real and PNG extractors, making it vulnerable to execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= libextractor is a library used to extract meta-data from files. It makes use of Xpdf code to extract information from PDF files.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-libs/libextractor < 0.5.0 >= 0.5.0
========== Xpdf is vulnerable to multiple overflows, as described i...

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