Secunia Security Advisory - Red Hat has issued an update for poppler. This fixes a vulnerability, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise an application using the library.
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TITLE:
Red Hat update for poppler
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26281
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26281/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
System access
WHERE:
>From remote
OPERATING SYSTEM:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
http://secunia.com/product/13651/
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
http://secunia.com/product/13653/
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
http://secunia.com/product/13652/
DESCRIPTION:
Red Hat has issued an update for poppler. This fixes a vulnerability,
which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise
an application using the library.
For more information:
SA26278
SOLUTION:
Updated packages are available from Red Hat Network.
http://rhn.redhat.com
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0732.html
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA26278:
http://secunia.com/advisories/SA26278/
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