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Fedora alert FEDORA-2004-572 (xpdf)

From:  Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>
To:  fedora-announce-list@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora Core 2 Update: xpdf-3.00-3.6
Date:  Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:46:48 +0000

--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2004-572 2004-12-22 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Product : Fedora Core 2 Name : xpdf Version : 3.00 Release : 3.6 Summary : A PDF file viewer for the X Window System. Description : Xpdf is an X Window System based viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Xpdf is a small and efficient program which uses standard X fonts. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This package fixes a buffer overflow which allows attackers to cause the xpdf application to crash, and possibly to execute arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures projects (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2004-1125 to this issue. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Wed Dec 22 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 1:3.00-3.6 - Applied patch to fix CAN-2004-1125 (bug #143500). --------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/u... 917422b5087ab12727223d4e570ade55 SRPMS/xpdf-3.00-3.6.src.rpm 293af32ed4f834a436dcdd1ddf7eab1b x86_64/xpdf-3.00-3.6.x86_64.rpm ff615294add6b4b8de966ff09168cfd9 x86_64/debug/xpdf-debuginfo-3.00-3.6.x86_64.rpm 2c70874a77f954e1de778457d4889154 i386/xpdf-3.00-3.6.i386.rpm 3222f6518777a6dcef53714a0b050c6d i386/debug/xpdf-debuginfo-3.00-3.6.i386.rpm This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command. --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list


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