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Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:20:40 +0200
From: Pinar Yanardag <pinar@...dus.org.tr>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: CVE Request: Poppler -Two Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

 From Secunia [1]:

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Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Poppler, which can be 
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

1) An uninitialised memory access error in the 
"FormWidgetChoice::loadDefaults()" function can be exploited to cause a 
crash via a specially crafted PDF document.

2) An error in the "JBIG2Stream::readSymbolDictSeg()" function can be 
exploited to cause a crash via a specially crafted PDF document.
--->8---

[1]: http://secunia.com/Advisories/33853

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Pinar Yanardag
http://pinguar.org
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Pardus Security Team
http://security.pardus.org.tr


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