--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2005-729 2005-08-15 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Product : Fedora Core 4 Name : xpdf Version : 3.00 Release : 20.FC4.2 Summary : A PDF file viewer for the X Window System. Description : Xpdf is an X Window System based viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Xpdf is a small and efficient program which uses standard X fonts. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: A flaw was discovered in Xpdf in that an attacker could construct a carefully crafted PDF file that would cause Xpdf to consume all available disk space in /tmp when opened. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project assigned the name CAN-2005-2097 to this issue. Users of xpdf should upgrade to this updated package, which contains a patch to resolve this issue. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Wed Jul 27 2005 Than Ngo <than@xxxxxxxxxx> 1:3.00-20.FC4.2 - better patch to fix CAN-2005-2097, #163918 - fix build problem with gcc4 * Tue Jul 26 2005 Than Ngo <than@xxxxxxxxxx> 3.00-20.FC4.1 - backport patch to fix xpdf DoS, CAN-2005-2097, #163918 - fix xpdf crash #163807 --------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/ 45702d839a744d7e47a1fe03bf6e4e40 SRPMS/xpdf-3.00-20.FC4.2.src.rpm 1a726ed1bd8b5dc3141a1614258ebff1 ppc/xpdf-3.00-20.FC4.2.ppc.rpm 61348dbd1b1c3d798f6862446242a7ec ppc/debug/xpdf-debuginfo-3.00-20.FC4.2.ppc.rpm ff2f134d6361527f9d18d94e46796ebf x86_64/xpdf-3.00-20.FC4.2.x86_64.rpm 11e6090deb68034abb58429a1c415d46 x86_64/debug/xpdf-debuginfo-3.00-20.FC4.2.x86_64.rpm db028d8f8f8d8242e6ccccdeb26408c7 i386/xpdf-3.00-20.FC4.2.i386.rpm 2aafd3c99dc2931060df6e7aedacff9a i386/debug/xpdf-debuginfo-3.00-20.FC4.2.i386.rpm This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command. --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- fedora-announce-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
