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HistoryAug 09, 2005 - 12:00 a.m.

(RHSA-2005:670) xpdf security update

2005-08-0900:00:00
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The xpdf package is an X Window System-based viewer for Portable Document
Format (PDF) files.

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.

Note this issue does not affect the version of Xpdf in Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 3 or 2.1.

Users of xpdf should upgrade to this updated package, which contains a
backported patch to resolve this issue.