Secunia Security Advisory - Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Poppler, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise an application using the library.
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TITLE:
Poppler "Stream.cc" Multiple Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27553
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27553/
CRITICAL:
Highly critical
IMPACT:
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 compromise an application using the
library.
The vulnerabilities are caused due to the use of vulnerable Xpdf
code.
For more information:
SA27260
SOLUTION:
Do not use the library to process untrusted PDF documents.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Red Hat:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-1026.html
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA27260:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27260/
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