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| <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> |
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| <glsa id="200807-04"> |
| <title>Poppler: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code</title> |
| <synopsis> |
| Poppler is affected by a memory management issue, which could lead to the |
| execution of arbitrary code. |
| </synopsis> |
| <product type="ebuild">poppler</product> |
| <announced>July 08, 2008</announced> |
| <revised>July 08, 2008: 01</revised> |
| <bug>229931</bug> |
| <access>remote</access> |
| <affected> |
| <package name="app-text/poppler" auto="yes" arch="*"> |
| <unaffected range="ge">0.6.3-r1</unaffected> |
| <vulnerable range="lt">0.6.3-r1</vulnerable> |
| </package> |
| </affected> |
| <background> |
| <p> |
| Poppler is a cross-platform PDF rendering library originally based on |
| Xpdf. |
| </p> |
| </background> |
| <description> |
| <p> |
| Felipe Andres Manzano reported a memory management issue in the Page |
| class constructor/destructor. |
| </p> |
| </description> |
| <impact type="normal"> |
| <p> |
| A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted PDF |
| file with a Poppler-based PDF viewer such as Gentoo's Xpdf, Epdfview, |
| or Evince, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code |
| with the privileges of the user running the application. |
| </p> |
| </impact> |
| <workaround> |
| <p> |
| There is no known workaround at this time. |
| </p> |
| </workaround> |
| <resolution> |
| <p> |
| All poppler users should upgrade to the latest version: |
| </p> |
| <code> |
| # emerge --sync |
| # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-text/poppler-0.6.3-r1"</code> |
| </resolution> |
| <references> |
| <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2950">CVE-2008-2950</uri> |
| </references> |
| <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:09:47 +0000"> |
| vorlon |
| </metadata> |
| <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:44:36 +0000"> |
| vorlon |
| </metadata> |
| </glsa> |