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poppler: arbitrary code execution

Package(s):

poppler

CVE #(s):

CVE-2008-1693

Created:

April 17, 2008

Updated:

September 17, 2008

Description:

From the Gentoo alert: Poppler does not handle fonts inside PDF files safely, allowing for execution of arbitrary code.

Alerts:

Mandriva	MDVSA-2008:197-1	2008-09-16
Mandriva	MDVSA-2008:197	2008-09-15
Mandriva	MDVSA-2008:173	2008-08-19
SuSE	SUSE-SR:2008:013	2008-06-13
SuSE	SUSE-SR:2008:011	2008-05-09
CentOS	CESA-2008:0262	2008-05-08
Red Hat	RHSA-2008:0262-01	2008-05-08
Fedora	FEDORA-2008-3312	2008-04-29
Ubuntu	USN-603-2	2008-04-17
Ubuntu	USN-603-1	2008-04-17
Red Hat	RHSA-2008:0239-01	2008-04-17
Red Hat	RHSA-2008:0238-01	2008-04-17
Debian	DSA-1548-1	2008-04-17
Mandriva	MDVSA-2008:089	2008-04-17
Red Hat	RHSA-2008:0240-01	2008-04-17
Gentoo	200804-18:02	2008-04-17

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