rhsa-2003_037
Vulnerability from csaf_redhat
Published
2003-02-06 15:03
Modified
2024-11-21 22:34
Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: : : : Updated Xpdf packages fix security vulnerability

Notes

Topic
Updated Xpdf packages are now available that fix a vulnerability in which a maliciously-crafted pdf document could run arbitrary code. [Updated 16 April 2003] Added packages for Red Hat Linux on IBM iSeries and pSeries systems.
Details
Xpdf is a viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. During an audit of CUPS, a printing system, Zen Parsec found an integer overflow vulnerability in the pdftops filter. Since the code for pdftops is taken from the Xpdf project, all versions of Xpdf including 2.01 are also vulnerable to this issue. An attacker could create a PDF file that could execute arbitrary code. This could would have the same access privileges as the user who viewed the file with Xpdf. All users of Xpdf are advised to upgrade to these erratum packages. For Red Hat Linux 8.0 we have included new packages based on Xpdf 1.01 with a patch to correct this issue. For Red Hat Linux 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, and 7.3 we have upgraded Xpdf to version 1.00 with a patch to correct this issue. For Red Hat Linux 6.2 we have upgraded Xpdf to version 0.92 with a patch to correct this issue.
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