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Mandriva: Subject: [Security Announce] [ MDVSA-2008:173 ] kdegraphics

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LinuxSecurity.com: Kees Cook of Ubuntu security found a flaw in how poppler prior to version 0.6 displayed malformed fonts embedded in PDF files. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause applications using poppler to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code when opened (CVE-2008-1693). This vulnerability also affected older versions of kpdf, so the updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.




Original Source: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/141174?rdf

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