Pardus alert 2011-44 (poppler)

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[Pardus-security]  [PLSA 2011-44] Poppler: Integer Overflow 
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Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:44:24 +0200
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Pardus Linux Security Advisory 2011-44            security@pardus.org.tr
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      Date: 2011-02-14
  Severity: 2
      Type: Local
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Summary
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A vulnerability has been fixed in poppler, which  allows  attackers  to 
execute arbitrary commands with a specially crafted PDF file. 


Description
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CVE-2010-4653: 

Due to an integer overflow when  parsing  CharCodes  for  fonts  and  a 
failure to check the return value of a memory allocation, it is possible
to trigger writes to a narrow range of offsets from a NULL pointer. 


Affected packages:

  Pardus 2009:
    poppler, all before 0.10.7-34-9


Resolution
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There are update(s) for poppler. You can update them via Package Manager
or with a single command from console: 

    pisi up poppler

References
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  * http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id=16815
  * http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general...

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