Mageia alert MGASA-2019-0422 (xpdf)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2019-0422: Updated xpdf packages fix security vulnerability 
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Tue, 31 Dec 2019 17:52:25 +0100
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<20191231165225.5BE359F736@duvel.mageia.org>
MGASA-2019-0422 - Updated xpdf packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 31 Dec 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0422.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 7
CVE: CVE-2019-17064

Description:
The updated packages fix a security vulnerability:

Catalog.cc in Xpdf 4.02 has a NULL pointer dereference because
Catalog.pageLabels is initialized too late in the Catalog
constructor. (CVE-2019-17064)

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25973
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https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-ann...
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-1...

SRPMS:
- 7/core/xpdf-4.02-1.1.mga7