1. Gentoo Linux Security Advisory
| Advisory Reference | GLSA 200411-30 / pdftohtml |
| Release Date | November 23, 2004 |
| Latest Revision | November 23, 2004: 01 |
| Impact | normal |
| Exploitable | remote |
| Package | Vulnerable versions | Unaffected versions | Architecture(s) |
| app-text/pdftohtml | <= 0.36 | >= 0.36-r1 | All supported architectures |
Related bugreports: #69019
pdftohtml includes vulnerable Xpdf code to handle PDF files, making it vulnerable to execution of arbitrary code upon converting a malicious PDF file.
pdftohtml is a utility to convert PDF files to HTML or XML formats. It makes use of Xpdf code to decode PDF files.
Xpdf is vulnerable to multiple integer overflows, as described in GLSA 200410-20.
An attacker could entice a user to convert a specially-crafted PDF file, potentially resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the rights of the user running pdftohtml.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All pdftohtml users should upgrade to the latest version:
Code Listing 3.1: Resolution |
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-text/pdftohtml-0.36-r1" |