Technical Description

Fedora has released updated packages to correct multiple vulnerabilities identified in xpdf. These flaws could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands and take complete control of an affected system. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2005-2755

Affected Products

Fedora Core 3
Fedora Core 4

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/
3fbdcffe2a17515fca487c822e8ba898 SRPMS/xpdf-3.01-0.FC3.4.src.rpm
942fbe93c401ef2af4df6f78a0f171a8 x86_64/xpdf-3.01-0.FC3.4.x86_64.rpm
2fccaa6ad73c1ee153c5b0c80778f481 x86_64/debug/xpdf-debuginfo-3.01-0.FC3.4.x86_64.rpm
a4f2424c0983090281229e8709f011bd i386/xpdf-3.01-0.FC3.4.i386.rpm
cf9f51b46f0a56818577d58a42f24856 i386/debug/xpdf-debuginfo-3.01-0.FC3.4.i386.rpm
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/
8eb2b8dde353ab48730c89972991a2fc SRPMS/xpdf-3.01-0.FC4.5.src.rpm
012186b96a434e36c7b04bdda865e8e5 ppc/xpdf-3.01-0.FC4.5.ppc.rpm
c43973989dae59251a1f6f2ea1c3596e ppc/debug/xpdf-debuginfo-3.01-0.FC4.5.ppc.rpm
9e70f7a2df42688105546aca78da6faf x86_64/xpdf-3.01-0.FC4.5.x86_64.rpm
7eaf3e7bda92dd7ab210de5f103a12cf x86_64/debug/xpdf-debuginfo-3.01-0.FC4.5.x86_64.rpm
4ec1702606e69f0aea8265951e6bd83d i386/xpdf-3.01-0.FC4.5.i386.rpm
effbf4cfdbb8284d4963a1d9db0270a3 i386/debug/xpdf-debuginfo-3.01-0.FC4.5.i386.rpm

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2954
http://www.frsirt.com/english/reference/2827
http://www.frsirt.com/english/reference/2828

ChangeLog

2005-12-19 : Initial release

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