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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2007-6561: PDFlib: Multiple buffer overflows

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2007-6561: PDFlib: Multiple buffer overflows

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
12/27/2007
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in PDFLib allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long filename argument to the PDF_load_image function that results in an overflow in the pdc_fsearch_fopen function, and possibly other vectors.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-media-libs-pdflib

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