Fedora 42 : texlive-base / xpdf (2025-e72c726192)

The remote Fedora 42 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-e72c726192 advisory. Update to 4.06. Lots of bugfixes, but notably, security fixes for the following CVEs: CVE-2024-2971 CVE-2024-3247 CVE-2024-3248 CVE-2024-3900...

Slackware: Security Advisory (SSA:2025-319-01)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-2971

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Out-of-bounds array write in Xpdf 4.05 and earlier, triggered by negative object number in indirect reference in the input PDF file. CVE-2024-2971 Note that...

CVE-2024-2971 Out-of-bounds array access due to negative object numbers in indirect references in Xpdf 4.05

Out-of-bounds array write in Xpdf 4.05 and earlier, triggered by negative object number in indirect reference in the input PDF file...

CVE-2024-2971

Xpdf vulnerability CVE-2024-2971 affects Xpdf 4.05 and earlier, caused by an out-of-bounds write in an array triggered by a negative object number in an indirect reference in the input PDF. Fedora advisories and security notes indicate update to 4.06 as the fix. If exploiting, the issue could imp...

CVE-2024-2971 Out-of-bounds array access due to negative object numbers in indirect references in Xpdf 4.05

Out-of-bounds array write in Xpdf 4.05 and earlier, triggered by negative object number in indirect reference in the input PDF file...