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ELSA-2009-1680 Important: Enterprise Linux xpdf security update

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ELSA-2009-1680 Important: Enterprise Linux xpdf security update

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
12/21/2009
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/20/2011
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

The FoFiType1::parse function in fofi/FoFiType1.cc in Xpdf 3.0.0, gpdf 2.8.2, kpdf in kdegraphics 3.3.1, and possibly other libraries and versions, does not check the return value of the getNextLine function, which allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PDF file with a crafted Type 1 font that can produce a negative value, leading to a signed-to-unsigned integer conversion error and a buffer overflow.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-xpdf

References

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