Secunia Security Advisory - Some vulnerabilities have been discovered in Poppler, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
Poppler "pdftoabw" Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA37333
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/37333/
DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been discovered in Poppler, which can be
exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
The vulnerabilities are caused due to boundary errors within the
"pdftoabw" utility, which can be exploited to cause stack-based
buffer overflows by e.g. tricking a user into converting a specially
crafted PDF file using the utility.
The vulnerabilities are confirmed in version 0.12.1. Other versions
may also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Do not process untrusted files.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported in a Debian bug by Jakub Wilk. Additional problems noticed
by Vincent Untz.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=534680
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23074
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