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Gentoo: GLSA-200601-17 Normal: Xpdf, Poppler Heap Overflows Exploited

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Calendar Grey January 30, 2006
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Gentoo Linux Advisory GLSA 202308-09 outlines critical vulnerabilities in LibreOffice and Ghostscript, accompanied by a high severity classification.
Xpdf, Poppler, GPdf, libextractor and pdftohtml are vulnerable to integer overflows that may be exploited to execute arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200601-17 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Xpdf, Poppler, GPdf, libextractor, pdftohtml: Heap overflows Date: January 30, 2006 Bugs: #117481, #117494, #117495, #115789, #118665 ID: 200601-17

Synopsis ======= Xpdf, Poppler, GPdf, libextractor and pdftohtml are vulnerable to integer overflows that may be exploited to execute arbitrary code.
Background ========= Xpdf is a PDF file viewer that runs under the X Window System. Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on the Xpdf 3.0 code base. GPdf is a PDF file viewer for the GNOME 2 platform, also based on Xpdf. libextractor is a library which includes Xpdf code to extract arbitrary meta-data from files. pdftohtml is a utility to convert PDF files to HTML or XML formats that makes use of Xpdf code to decode PDF files.
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