oss-security - Re: CVE request: libpoppler4: buffer overflow in the Abiword backend

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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:05:32 -0500 (EST)
From: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request: libpoppler4: buffer overflow in the
 Abiword backend

----- "Thomas Biege" <thomas@...e.de> wrote:
> 
> Hello everybody,
> 
> does this need an CVE-ID?
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=534680
> 

I presume this does need a CVE id, but seeing as PDF related bugs are often a
Pandora's Box, I'd rather not assign one just yet. Has someone looked at this
to see what the root of the problem is?

Thanks.

-- 
    JB

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