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Gentoo: GLSA-200903-29 Normal: PDF Reader Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey March 10, 2008
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Several buffer overflow vulnerabilities discovered in PDFlib could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code remotely; an upgrade is strongly advised.
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows have been reported in PDFlib.

Summary

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200803-17
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Normal
     Title: PDFlib: Multiple buffer overflows
      Date: March 10, 2008
      Bugs: #203287
        ID: 200803-17


Synopsis
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Multiple stack-based buffer overflows have been reported in PDFlib.

Background
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PDFlib is a library for generating PDF on the fly.

Affected packages
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     Package            /  Vulnerable  /                    Unaffected
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  1  media-libs/pdflib     < 7.0.2_p8                      >= 7.0.2_p8

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poplix reported multiple boundary errors in the pdc_fsearch_fopen()
function when processing overly long filenames.

Impact
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A remote attacker could send specially crafted content...
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