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Gentoo: GLSA 200512-08 Normal: Xpdf, GPdf, CUPS, Poppler Arbitrary Code

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Vulnerabilities detected in Evince, LibreOffice, GIMP, ImageMagick; users advised to update immediately to mitigate potential exploits.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Xpdf, GPdf, CUPS and Poppler potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200512-08 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Xpdf, GPdf, CUPS, Poppler: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: December 16, 2005 Bugs: #114428, #115286 ID: 200512-08

Synopsis ======= Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Xpdf, GPdf, CUPS and Poppler potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= Xpdf and GPdf are PDF file viewers that run under the X Window System. Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on Xpdf code. The Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) is a cross-platform print spooler. It makes use of Xpdf code to handle PDF files.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-text/xpd...

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