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Scientific Linux Security Advisory: Important Poppler Issues

Calendar Oct 07, 2010 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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Important: poppler security update 
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 15:53:20 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Important: poppler on SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Important: poppler security update
Issue date:	2010-10-07
CVE Names:	CVE-2010-3702 CVE-2010-3704

An uninitialized pointer use flaw was discovered in poppler. An attacker
could create a malicious PDF file that, when opened, would cause
applications that use poppler (such as Evince) to crash or, potentially,
execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2010-3702)

An array index error was found in the way poppler parsed PostScript Type
1 fonts embedded in PDF documents. An attacker could create a malicious
PDF file that, when opened, would cause applications that use poppler
(such as Evince) to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2010-3704)

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
poppler-0.5.4-4.4.el5_5.14.src.rpm
 i386:
poppler-0.5.4-4.4.el5_5.14.i386.rpm
poppler-devel-0.5.4-4.4.el5_5.14.i386.rpm
poppler-utils-0.5.4-4.4.el5_5.14.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
poppler-0.5.4-4.4.el5_5.14.i386.rpm
poppler-0.5.4-4.4.el5_5.14.x86_64.rpm
poppler-devel-0.5.4-4.4.el5_5.14.i386.rpm
poppler-devel-0.5.4-4.4.el5_5.14.x86_64.rpm
poppler-utils-0.5.4-4.4.el5_5.14.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson