Technical Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in various SuSE products, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or compromise a vulnerable system. These issues are caused by errors in xpdf, kdegraphics3-pdf, koffice, libextractor, poppler, gpdf, cups, pdf, and pdftohtml. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2007-3774 - VUPEN/ADV-2007-3775 - VUPEN/ADV-2007-3776 - VUPEN/ADV-2007-3779

Affected Products

SUSE LINUX 10.0
SUSE LINUX 10.1
openSUSE 10.2
openSUSE 10.3
UnitedLinux 1.0
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8
SuSE Linux Openexchange Server 4
SuSE Linux Desktop 1.0
SuSE Linux Standard Server 8
SuSE Linux School Server
SUSE LINUX Retail Solution 8
SUSE SLES 9
SLES SDK 9
Novell Linux Desktop 9
Open Enterprise Server
Novell Linux POS 9
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP1
SLE SDK 10 SP1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :
http://download.opensuse.org/pub/

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3865
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2007-11/msg00001.html

ChangeLog

2007-11-15 : Initial release

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