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>> Gentoo Security Update Fixes PDFLib Code Execution Vulnerabilities
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Title : Gentoo Security Update Fixes PDFLib Code Execution Vulnerabilities
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-0830
CVE ID : CVE-2007-6561
Rated as : High Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-03-11
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Gentoo, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or compromise an affected system. These issues are caused by buffer overflow errors in the "pdc_fsearch_fopen()" function within PDFlib when processing overly long filenames, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application.
Affected Products
media-libs/pdflib versions prior to 7.0.2_p8
Solution
Upgrade the affected package :
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose " >=media-libs/pdflib-7.0.2_p8"
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0830
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200803-17.xml
ChangeLog
2008-03-11 : Initial release
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