<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200807-04"> <title>Poppler: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code</title> <synopsis> Poppler is affected by a memory management issue, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">poppler</product> <announced>2008-07-08</announced> <revised count="01">2008-07-08</revised> <bug>229931</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="app-text/poppler" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">0.6.3-r1</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">0.6.3-r1</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> Poppler is a cross-platform PDF rendering library originally based on Xpdf. </p> </background> <description> <p> Felipe Andres Manzano reported a memory management issue in the Page class constructor/destructor. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p> A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted PDF file with a Poppler-based PDF viewer such as Gentoo's Xpdf, Epdfview, or Evince, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p> There is no known workaround at this time. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p> All poppler users should upgrade to the latest version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-text/poppler-0.6.3-r1"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2950">CVE-2008-2950</uri> </references> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2008-07-07T09:09:47Z"> vorlon </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2008-07-08T18:44:36Z"> vorlon </metadata> </glsa>