| Revision Date: | 2005-03-04 | Version: | 502 |
| Title: | RHSA-2005:213: xpdf security update (Important) |
| Description: | The xpdf package is an X Window System-based viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files.
During a source code audit, Chris Evans and others discovered a number of integer overflow bugs that affected all versions of Xpdf. An attacker could construct a carefully crafted PDF file that could cause Xpdf to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code when opened. This issue was assigned the name CAN-2004-0888 by The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org). RHSA-2004:592 contained a fix for this issue, but it was found to be incomplete and left 64-bit architectures vulnerable. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2005-0206 to this issue.
All users of xpdf should upgrade to this updated package, which contains backported patches to resolve these issues.
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| Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
| Status: | | Reference(s): | CVE-2005-0206
RHSA-2005:213-01
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| Platform(s): | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
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| Definition Synopsis |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 is installed AND xpdf is earlier than 1:2.02-9.6
AND xpdf is signed with Red Hat master key
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