1. Gentoo Linux Security Advisory
| Advisory Reference | GLSA 200502-10 / pdftohtml |
| Release Date | February 09, 2005 |
| Latest Revision | February 09, 2005: 01 |
| Impact | normal |
| Exploitable | remote |
| Package | Vulnerable versions | Unaffected versions | Architecture(s) |
| app-text/pdftohtml | < 0.36-r3 | >= 0.36-r3 | All supported architectures |
Related bugreports: #78629
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 a buffer overflow, as described in GLSA 200501-28.
An attacker could entice a user to convert a specially-crafted PDF file, potentially resulting in the 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-r3" |