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Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-7012 (poppler)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: poppler-0.8.1-2.fc9
Date:  Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:07:33 +0000
Message-ID:  <20080911170733.6F0E22E02C4@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-7012 2008-09-11 11:01:37 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : poppler Product : Fedora 9 Version : 0.8.1 Release : 2.fc9 URL : http://poppler.freedesktop.org/ Summary : PDF rendering library Description : Poppler, a PDF rendering library, is a fork of the xpdf PDF viewer developed by Derek Noonburg of Glyph and Cog, LLC. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Security fix: Add upstream patch for CVE-2008-2950 / oCERT-2008-007 - use of an uninitialized pointer to call free() in Page::~Page (#454277) http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-007.html Bug fixes: Fix crash when reading QuadPoints (#448516) Use static FT_Library in CairoOutputDev, as dynamic may trigger use-after-free and crash e.g. evince (#456867) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Thu Jul 31 2008 Tomas Hoger <thoger@redhat.com> - 0.8.1-2 - Security update: Add upstream patch for CVE-2008-2950 / oCERT-2008-007 - use of an uninitilized pointer to call free() in Page::~Page (#454277) - Bug fixes: Fix crash when reading QuadPoints (#448516) Use static FT_Library in CairoOutputDev, as dynamic may trigger use-after-free and crash e.g. evince (#456867) * Mon Apr 28 2008 Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com> - 0.8.1-1 - Update to 0.8.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #454277 - CVE-2008-2950 poppler: uninitialized pointer free (oCERT-2008-007) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454277 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update poppler' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...


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