Slackware 15.0: 2024-040-01 Critical: Xpdf Security Update
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February 9, 2024
New xpdf packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/xpdf-4.05-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: Fixed a bug in the ICCBased color space parser that was allowing the number of components to be zero. Thanks to huckleberry for the bug report. Fixed a bug in the ICCBased color space parser that was allowing the number of components to be zero. Thanks to huckleberry for the bug report. Added checks for PDF object loops in AcroForm::scanField(), Catalog::readPageLabelTree2(), and Catalog::readEmbeddedFileTree(). The zero-width character problem can also happen if the page size is very large -- that needs to be limited too, the same way as character position coordinates. Thanks to jlinliu for the bug report. Add some missing bounds check code in DCTStream. Thanks to Jiahao Liu for the bug report. Fix a deadlock when an object stream's length field is contained in another object stream. Thanks to Jiahao Liu
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Updated package for Slackware 15.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/xpdf-4.05-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/xpdf-4.05-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/xap/xpdf-4.05-i586-1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/xap/xpdf-4.05-x86_64-1.txz
MD5 Signatures
Slackware 15.0 package:
f7667c53e498407c734c0aa48041b27c xpdf-4.05-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package:
18ea58703d2516ecac8a126092297d99 xpdf-4.05-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package:
20ccc8259c8b7d0c48c857e749766d5f xap/xpdf-4.05-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
335e2ea6a54d540a95754c619b6a5e3b xap/xpdf-4.05-x86_64-1.txz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg xpdf-4.05-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
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