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From: Daniel Ahlberg (aliz_at_gentoo.org)
Date: Thu Jan 02 2003 - 04:17:50 CST

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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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