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xpdf -- stack based buffer overflow

Description:

The KDE Team reports:

kpdf, the KDE pdf viewer, shares code with xpdf. xpdf contains a vulnerability that can cause a stack based buffer overflow via a PDF file that exploits an integer overflow in StreamPredictor::StreamPredictor(). Remotely supplied pdf files can be used to disrupt the kpdf viewer on the client machine and possibly execute arbitrary code.

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portaudit: xpdf -- stack based buffer overflow

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Oliver Eikemeier <eik@FreeBSD.org>