gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200807-04.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<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>2008-07-08</announced>
<revised count="01">2008-07-08</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 "&gt;=app-text/poppler-0.6.3-r1"</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2950">CVE-2008-2950</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2008-07-07T09:09:47Z">
vorlon
</metadata>
<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2008-07-08T18:44:36Z">
vorlon
</metadata>
</glsa>