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Fedora Core 4 : xpdf-3.01-0.FC4.8 (2006-104)

high Nessus Plugin ID 20882

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

xpdf contains a heap based buffer overflow in the splash rasterizer engine that can crash kpdf or even execute arbitrary code.

Users impacted by these issues, should update to this new package release.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected xpdf and / or xpdf-debuginfo packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?98192542

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 20882

File Name: fedora_2006-104.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/11/2006

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xpdf, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xpdf-debuginfo, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:4

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 2/10/2006

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2006-104