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Gentoo: 202305-08 Normal: Evince Poppler Memory Leak Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey February 12, 2006
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Critical vulnerability resolved in Gentoo GLSA 200607-05 concerning Ghostscript and PDFium memory corruption.
Xpdf and Poppler are vulnerable to a heap overflow that may be exploited to execute arbitrary code.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200602-04 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Xpdf, Poppler: Heap overflow Date: February 12, 2006 Bugs: #120985 ID: 200602-04

Synopsis ======= Xpdf and Poppler are vulnerable to a heap overflow 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.
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