[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: poppler-0.8.1-2.fc9
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Thu Sep 11 17:07:33 UTC 2008
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-7012
2008-09-11 11:01:37
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Name : poppler
Product : Fedora 9
Version : 0.8.1
Release : 2.fc9
URL : http://poppler.freedesktop.org/
Summary : PDF rendering library
Description :
Poppler, a PDF rendering library, is a fork of the xpdf PDF
viewer developed by Derek Noonburg of Glyph and Cog, LLC.
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Update Information:
Security fix: Add upstream patch for CVE-2008-2950 / oCERT-2008-007 - use of
an uninitialized pointer to call free() in Page::~Page (#454277)
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-007.html Bug fixes: Fix crash
when reading QuadPoints (#448516) Use static FT_Library in CairoOutputDev, as
dynamic may trigger use-after-free and crash e.g. evince (#456867)
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ChangeLog:
* Thu Jul 31 2008 Tomas Hoger <thoger at redhat.com> - 0.8.1-2
- Security update:
Add upstream patch for CVE-2008-2950 / oCERT-2008-007 - use of
an uninitilized pointer to call free() in Page::~Page (#454277)
- Bug fixes:
Fix crash when reading QuadPoints (#448516)
Use static FT_Library in CairoOutputDev, as dynamic may trigger
use-after-free and crash e.g. evince (#456867)
* Mon Apr 28 2008 Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> - 0.8.1-1
- Update to 0.8.1
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #454277 - CVE-2008-2950 poppler: uninitialized pointer free (oCERT-2008-007)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454277
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update poppler' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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