gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200804-18.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200804-18">
<title>Poppler: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code</title>
<synopsis>
Poppler does not handle fonts inside PDF files safely, allowing for
execution of arbitrary code.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">poppler</product>
<announced>2008-04-17</announced>
<revised count="02">2008-04-17</revised>
<bug>216850</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="app-text/poppler" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">0.6.3</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">0.6.3</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>
Poppler is a cross-platform PDF rendering library originally based on
Xpdf.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>
Kees Cook from the Ubuntu Security Team reported that the
CairoFont::create() function in the file CairoFontEngine.cc does not
verify the type of an embedded font object inside a PDF file before
dereferencing a function pointer from it.
</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 "&gt;=app-text/poppler-0.6.3"</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1693">CVE-2008-1693</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2008-04-14T01:16:23Z">
rbu
</metadata>
<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2008-04-17T11:28:12Z">
rbu
</metadata>
</glsa>