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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:27:03 +0100
From: Thomas Biege <thomas@...e.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request: libpoppler4: buffer overflow in the Abiword backend

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 08:05:32PM -0500, Josh Bressers wrote:
> ----- "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?

AFAICS it just affects libpoppler. But version 4 may not be the only
one with the bug.

Bye,
     Thomas
-- 
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 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg)
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