Poppler Embedded Fonts Processing Vulnerability - Advisories

Poppler Embedded Fonts Processing Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory:	SA29836
Release Date:	2008-04-18
Last Update:	2008-05-01

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

Software:	Poppler 0.x

CVE reference:	CVE-2008-1693 (Secunia mirror)

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Description: A vulnerability has been reported in Poppler, which can potentially be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. For more information: SA29816 Solution: Update to version 0.6.2 or later. Provided and/or discovered by: Red Hat credits Kees Cook. Changelog: 2008-05-01: Updated "Solution" section. Original Advisory: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0239.html Other References: SA29816: http://secunia.com/advisories/29816/



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