Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 11:17:50 +0100
From: Daniel Ahlberg <aliz@gentoo.org>
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Subject: GLSA: xpdf
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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200301-1
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PACKAGE : xpdf
SUMMARY═: integer overflow
DATE ══ : 2003-01-02 10:01 UTC
EXPLOIT : local and remote
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- From iDEFENSE advisory:
"The pdftops filter in the Xpdf and CUPS packages contains an integer
overflow that can be exploited to gain the privileges of the target user
or in some cases the increased privileges of the 'lp' user if installed
setuid. There are multiple ways of exploiting this vulnerability."
Read the full advisory at
http://www.idefense.com/advisory/12.23.02.txt
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
app-text/xpdf-1.01-r1 or earlier update their systems as
follows:
emerge rsync
emerge xpdf
emerge clean
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