Secunia Security Advisory - Fedora has issued an update for xpdf. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially to compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
Fedora update for xpdf
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA17926
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17926/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
DoS, System access
WHERE:
>From remote
OPERATING SYSTEM:
Fedora Core 3
http://secunia.com/product/4222/
Fedora Core 4
http://secunia.com/product/5251/
DESCRIPTION:
Fedora has issued an update for xpdf. This fixes some
vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause
a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially to compromise a user's
system.
For more information:
SA17897
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages.
Fedora Core 3:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/
69dc1262d4ac1a7f706554a2aa278f1b SRPMS/xpdf-3.01-0.FC3.3.src.rpm
1c49642003d2017d0789eed36c409b8b x86_64/xpdf-3.01-0.FC3.3.x86_64.rpm
74af76cadc5d90674a21d1b0e1c245b9
x86_64/debug/xpdf-debuginfo-3.01-0.FC3.3.x86_64.rpm
e87089ed6646877e1ed54018d42dd852 i386/xpdf-3.01-0.FC3.3.i386.rpm
4ec6a4425385b8de2ff961aa738cfd65
i386/debug/xpdf-debuginfo-3.01-0.FC3.3.i386.rpm
Fedora Core 4:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/
e439b80c57a6ca7d5e2b38f8ae7d276c SRPMS/xpdf-3.01-0.FC4.3.src.rpm
0ee28635d60f65d2d8acc9ae0fe5d7b2 ppc/xpdf-3.01-0.FC4.3.ppc.rpm
729d05aa72aa61af710115ea94fc6954
ppc/debug/xpdf-debuginfo-3.01-0.FC4.3.ppc.rpm
2a191c74800dd66255ac18857c12ac5d x86_64/xpdf-3.01-0.FC4.3.x86_64.rpm
ee1cd4cccec3a0b3bb72de3a72f4ce9a
x86_64/debug/xpdf-debuginfo-3.01-0.FC4.3.x86_64.rpm
c7c92841cec26466b576208d14feed9e i386/xpdf-3.01-0.FC4.3.i386.rpm
9ec2d56a438aaa69029a440803f7b802
i386/debug/xpdf-debuginfo-3.01-0.FC4.3.i386.rpm
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA17897:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17897/
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