Poppler is a cross-platform PDF rendering library originally based on Xpdf.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Poppler. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted PDF in an application linked against Poppler, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or a Denial of Service condition.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All Poppler users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-text/poppler-0.24.5"