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poppler -- uninitialized pointer

Affected packages
		poppler	<	0.8.4_2

Details

VuXML ID	bc20510f-4dd4-11dd-93e7-0211d880e350
Discovery	2008-07-07
Entry	2008-07-09

Felipe Andres Manzano reports:

The libpoppler pdf rendering library, can free uninitialized pointers, leading to arbitrary code execution. This vulnerability results from memory management bugs in the Page class constructor/destructor.

[source]

References

CVE Name	CVE-2008-2950
URL	http://milw0rm.com/exploits/6032