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Fedora alert FEDORA-2005-1122 (xpdf)

From:  "Than Ngo" <than@redhat.com>
To:  fedora-announce-list@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora Core 4 Update: xpdf-3.01-0.FC4.3
Date:  Tue, 6 Dec 2005 11:43:30 -0500

--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2005-1122 2005-12-06 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Product : Fedora Core 4 Name : xpdf Version : 3.01 Release : 0.FC4.3 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: Several flaws were discovered in Xpdf. An attacker could construct a carefully crafted PDF file that could cause Xpdf to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code when opened. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project assigned the name CAN-2005-3193 to these issues. Users of Xpdf should upgrade to this updated package, which contains a patch to resolve these issues. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Mon Nov 7 2005 Than Ngo <than@redhat.com> 1:3.01-0.FC4.3 - apply upstream patch to fix security holes in Xpdf --------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/u... e439b80c57a6ca7d5e2b38f8ae7d276c SRPMS/xpdf-3.01-0.FC4.3.src.rpm 0ee28635d60f65d2d8acc9ae0fe5d7b2 ppc/xpdf-3.01-0.FC4.3.ppc.rpm 729d05aa72aa61af710115ea94fc6954 ppc/debug/xpdf-debuginfo-3.01-0.FC4.3.ppc.rpm 2a191c74800dd66255ac18857c12ac5d x86_64/xpdf-3.01-0.FC4.3.x86_64.rpm ee1cd4cccec3a0b3bb72de3a72f4ce9a x86_64/debug/xpdf-debuginfo-3.01-0.FC4.3.x86_64.rpm c7c92841cec26466b576208d14feed9e i386/xpdf-3.01-0.FC4.3.i386.rpm 9ec2d56a438aaa69029a440803f7b802 i386/debug/xpdf-debuginfo-3.01-0.FC4.3.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 https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list


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