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
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Xpdf, Poppler, GPdf, libextractor and pdftohtml are vulnerable to
integer overflows that may be exploited to execute arbitrary code.
Background
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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.
Affected packages
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