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>> Gentoo Security Update Fixes Multiple Xpdf Packages Vulnerabilities

Title : Gentoo Security Update Fixes Multiple Xpdf Packages Vulnerabilities
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-0384
CVE ID : CVE-2005-3624 - CVE-2005-3625 - CVE-2005-3626 - CVE-2005-3627
Rated as : High Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-01-31

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Gentoo has released updated packages to address multiple vulnerabilities identified in Xpdf, Poppler, GPdf, libextractor and pdftohtml. 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-2006-0047

Affected Products

app-text/xpdf versions prior to 3.01-r5
app-text/poppler versions prior to 0.4.3-r4
app-text/gpdf versions prior to 2.10.0-r3
media-libs/libextractor versions prior to 0.5.9
app-text/pdftohtml versions prior to 0.36-r4

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose " >=app-text/xpdf-3.01-r5"
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose " >=app-text/poppler-0.4.3-r4"
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose " >=app-text/gpdf-2.10.0-r3"
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose " >=media-libs/libextractor-0.5.9"

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0384
http://www.frsirt.com/english/reference/5252

ChangeLog

2006-01-31 : Initial release

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