Summary
The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory RHSA-2009:1681.
GPdf is a viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files.
Petr Gajdos and Christian Kornacker of SUSE reported a buffer overflow flaw in GPdf's Type 1 font parser. A specially-crafted PDF file with an embedded Type 1 font could cause GPdf to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code when opened. (CVE-2009-4035)
Users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch to correct this issue.
Solution
Please note that this update is available via
Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date
References
Updated on 2017-03-28
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-4035 -
CVSS Base Score: 9.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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