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HistoryNov 09, 2007 - 3:35 a.m.

xpdf security update

2007-11-0903:35:01
CentOS Project
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9.3 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

0.332 Low

EPSS

Percentile

97.0%

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2007:1031-01

Xpdf is an X Window System-based viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF)
files.

Alin Rad Pop discovered a flaw in the handling of PDF files. An attacker
could create a malicious PDF file that would cause Xpdf to crash, or
potentially execute arbitrary code when opened. (CVE-2007-5393)

A flaw was found in the t1lib library, used in the handling of Type 1
fonts. An attacker could create a malicious file that would cause Xpdf
to crash, or potentially execute arbitrary code when opened.
(CVE-2007-4033)

Users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain
backported patches to resolve these issues.

Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2007-November/076568.html

Affected packages:
xpdf

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
CentOS2i386xpdf< 0.92-19.el2xpdf-0.92-19.el2.i386.rpm

9.3 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

0.332 Low

EPSS

Percentile

97.0%