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Slackware 12.0 SSA:2007-222-02 Critical: Poppler Integer Overflow

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Calendar Grey August 11, 2007
Dist Slackware Esm H88
New patch available for Slackware 12.0 resolving buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the poppler module
A new poppler package is available for Slackware 12.0 to fix an integer overflow

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 12.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/poppler-0.5.4-i486-2_slack12.0.tgz: Patched to fix an integer overflow in code borrowed from xpdf. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-3387 (* Security fix *) Where to find the new package: HINT: Getting slow download speeds from ftp.slackware.com? Give slackware.osuosl.org a try. This is another primary FTP site for Slackware that can be considerably faster than downloading from ftp.slackware.com. Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (https://osuosl.org/) for donating additional FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-) Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for additional mirror sites near you. Updated package for Slackware 12.0: MD5 signature: Slackware 12.0 package: d173df595b7767066d540890878ee444 poppler-0.5.4-i486-2_slack12.0.tgz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg poppler-0.5.4-i486-2_slack12.0.tgz

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