Description: A vulnerability has been reported in Xpdf, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the "Decrypt::makeFileKey2()" function. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow by tricking a user into viewing a malicious PDF document containing specially crafted values in the "/Encrypt /Length" tag.
Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.
The vulnerability has been reported in version 3.00. Prior versions may also be affected.
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