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 Multiple Integer Overflow Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA18312
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/18312/
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:
SA18303
SOLUTION:
Restrict use to trusted PDF files only.
Some Linux vendors have released updated packages.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Debian:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=346076
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA18303:
http://secunia.com/advisories/18303/
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