Monday, October 18, 2010

New poppler packages: fix several vulnerabilities

Users of poppler please be advised of a New poppler packages fix several vulnerabilities that has been identified.

To view this vulnerability, possible remedies, and others please check out the Security Advisories at Critical Watch (http://criticalwatch.com/support/security-advisories.aspx)

Amplify’d from www.criticalwatch.com
DSA 2116-1: [DSA 2116-1] New poppler packages fix several vulnerabilities
Joel Voss of Leviathan Security Group discovered two vulnerabilities in

the Poppler PDF rendering library, which may lead to the execution of

arbitrary code if a malformed PDF file is opened.
Read more at www.criticalwatch.com
 

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