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Poppler Xpdf Multiple Integer Overflow Vulnerabilities Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA18312  
Release Date: 2006-01-06
Last Update: 2006-01-12

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Poppler 0.x

CVE reference:CVE-2005-3624 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2005-3625 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2005-3626 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2005-3627 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Poppler, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to the use of a vulnerable version of Xpdf.

For more information:
SA18303

Solution:
Update to version 0.4.4.
http://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-0.4.4.tar.gz

Changelog:
2006-01-12: Vendor released fixed version. Updated "Solution Status", "Solution" and "Original Advisory" sections.

Original Advisory:
Poppler:
http://poppler.freedesktop.org/releases.html

Debian:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=346076

Other References:
SA18303:
http://secunia.com/advisories/18303/



Please note: The information that this Secunia Advisory is based on comes from a third party unless stated otherwise.

Secunia collects, validates, and verifies all vulnerability reports issued by security research groups, vendors, and others.

6 Related Secunia Security Advisories

1. Poppler "pageWidgets" Uninitialized Memory Access
2. Poppler Embedded Fonts Processing Vulnerability
3. Poppler "Stream.cc" Multiple Vulnerabilities
4. Poppler "StreamPredictor" Multiple Vulnerabilities
5. Poppler Invalid Tree Node Denial of Service
6. Poppler Xpdf Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities


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