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Gentoo update for poppler
Secunia Advisory: SA31002
Release Date: 2008-07-09
Popularity: 1,244 views

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

OS:Gentoo Linux 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2008-2950


Description:
Gentoo has issued an update for poppler. This fixes a vulnerability, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise an application using the library.

For more information:
SA30963

Solution:
Update to "app-text/poppler-0.6.3-r1" or later.

Original Advisory:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200807-04.xml

Other References:
SA30963:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30963/


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