Secunia Security Advisory - Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Poppler, 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:
Poppler Xpdf Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA17912
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17912/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
DoS, System access
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Poppler 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/6386/
DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Poppler, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and
potentially to compromise a user's system.
The vulnerabilities are caused due to the use of a vulnerable version
of Xpdf.
For more information:
SA17897
The vulnerabilities affect version 0.4.2. Prior versions may also be
affected.
SOLUTION:
The vulnerabilities have been fixed in the CVS repositories.
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA17897:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17897/
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