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Gentoo GLSA-200602-12 Alert: Risk of Heap Overflow in GPdf Detected

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Calendar Grey February 21, 2006
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Warning regarding GPdf flaw in Gentoo: potential heap overflow within Xpdf could allow for execution of arbitrary code.
GPdf includes vulnerable Xpdf code to handle PDF files, making it vulnerable to the execution of arbitrary code.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200602-12 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: GPdf: Heap overflows in included Xpdf code Date: February 21, 2006 Bugs: #121511 ID: 200602-12

Synopsis ======= GPdf includes vulnerable Xpdf code to handle PDF files, making it vulnerable to the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= GPdf is a Gnome PDF viewer.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-text/gpdf < 2.10.0-r4 >= 2.10.0-r4
========== Dirk Mueller found a heap overflow vulnerability in the XPdf codebase when handling splash images that exceed size of the associated bitmap.
Impact ===== An attacker could entice a user to ...

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