Secunia Security Advisory - Mandriva has issued an update for pdftohtml. This fixes a vulnerability, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
Mandriva update for pdftohtml
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26405
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26405/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
System access
WHERE:
>From remote
OPERATING SYSTEM:
Mandriva Linux 2007
http://secunia.com/product/12165/
DESCRIPTION:
Mandriva has issued an update for pdftohtml. This fixes a
vulnerability, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people
to compromise a user's system.
For more information:
SA26436
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages.
Mandriva Linux 2007
4592a1f7115b10ad63444f4573a30365
2007.0/i586/pdftohtml-0.36-5.2mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
ed0f9331d0f7042c9ef0df41d28c1e69
2007.0/SRPMS/pdftohtml-0.36-5.2mdv2007.0.src.rpm
Mandriva Linux 2007/X86_64
66426070761def5ae0ee9f6f1b174a46
2007.1/i586/pdftohtml-0.39-1.1mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
17a547b0f2d2fecc5800083143dc730f
2007.1/SRPMS/pdftohtml-0.39-1.1mdv2007.1.src.rpm
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:160
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA26436:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26436/
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