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[SECURITY] Fedora Core 3 Update: xpdf-3.00-10.6.FC3
Posted by Bob on: 08/15/2005 06:56 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]
A new update is available for Fedora Core - [SECURITY] Fedora Core 3 Update: xpdf-3.00-10.6.FC3. Here the announcement:
Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-730
2005-08-15
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : xpdf
Version : 3.00
Release : 10.6.FC3
Summary : A PDF file viewer for the X Window System.
Description :
Xpdf is an X Window System based viewer for Portable Document Format
(PDF) files. Xpdf is a small and efficient program which uses
standard X fonts.
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Update Information:
A flaw was discovered in Xpdf in that an attacker could
construct a carefully crafted PDF file that would cause Xpdf
to consume all available disk space in /tmp when opened. The
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project assigned the name
CAN-2005-2097 to this issue.
Users of xpdf should upgrade to this updated package, which
contains a backported patch to resolve this issue.
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* Wed Jul 27 2005 Than Ngo <than@redhat.com> 1:3.00-10.6.FC3
- better patch to fix CAN-2005-2097, #163918
* Tue Jul 26 2005 Than Ngo <than@redhat.com> 1:3.00-10.5.FC3
- backport patch to fix xpdf DoS, CAN-2005-2097, #163918
- fix xpdf crash #163807
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This update can be downloaded from:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/
f0fa9a37ace898d04be68f16b5a7bb14 SRPMS/xpdf-3.00-10.6.FC3.src.rpm
405fdeddfd2ca96646fcb2ae605f1c59 x86_64/xpdf-3.00-10.6.FC3.x86_64.rpm
f577bca35f06c9c74460ffad33665614
x86_64/debug/xpdf-debuginfo-3.00-10.6.FC3.x86_64.rpm
80095ec93707eb9b74872f9b49d1a99a i386/xpdf-3.00-10.6.FC3.i386.rpm
14798c621432d77e3a41ec594a47f545 i386/debug/xpdf-debuginfo-3.00-10.6.FC3.i386.rpm
This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.
FEDORA-2005-730
2005-08-15
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : xpdf
Version : 3.00
Release : 10.6.FC3
Summary : A PDF file viewer for the X Window System.
Description :
Xpdf is an X Window System based viewer for Portable Document Format
(PDF) files. Xpdf is a small and efficient program which uses
standard X fonts.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Update Information:
A flaw was discovered in Xpdf in that an attacker could
construct a carefully crafted PDF file that would cause Xpdf
to consume all available disk space in /tmp when opened. The
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project assigned the name
CAN-2005-2097 to this issue.
Users of xpdf should upgrade to this updated package, which
contains a backported patch to resolve this issue.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
* Wed Jul 27 2005 Than Ngo <than@redhat.com> 1:3.00-10.6.FC3
- better patch to fix CAN-2005-2097, #163918
* Tue Jul 26 2005 Than Ngo <than@redhat.com> 1:3.00-10.5.FC3
- backport patch to fix xpdf DoS, CAN-2005-2097, #163918
- fix xpdf crash #163807
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This update can be downloaded from:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/
f0fa9a37ace898d04be68f16b5a7bb14 SRPMS/xpdf-3.00-10.6.FC3.src.rpm
405fdeddfd2ca96646fcb2ae605f1c59 x86_64/xpdf-3.00-10.6.FC3.x86_64.rpm
f577bca35f06c9c74460ffad33665614
x86_64/debug/xpdf-debuginfo-3.00-10.6.FC3.x86_64.rpm
80095ec93707eb9b74872f9b49d1a99a i386/xpdf-3.00-10.6.FC3.i386.rpm
14798c621432d77e3a41ec594a47f545 i386/debug/xpdf-debuginfo-3.00-10.6.FC3.i386.rpm
This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.
