[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: poppler-0.5.4-9.fc7

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-3312
2008-04-29 20:20:54
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Name        : poppler
Product     : Fedora 7
Version     : 0.5.4
Release     : 9.fc7
URL         : http://poppler.freedesktop.org/
Summary     : PDF rendering library
Description :
Poppler, a PDF rendering library, it's a fork of the xpdf PDF
viewer developed by Derek Noonburg of Glyph and Cog, LLC.

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Update Information:

Security update:  xpdf embedded font vulnerability - CVE-2008-1693 (#441722)
(backport patch used in upstream poppler-0.6.2 and later)
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Apr 24 2008 Tomas Hoger <thoger at redhat.com> - 0.5.4-9
- Security update: xpdf embedded font vulnerability
  CVE-2008-1693 (#441722)
  (backport patch used in upstream poppler-0.6.2 and later)
* Thu Feb  7 2008 Tomas Hoger <thoger at redhat.com> - 0.5.4-8
- Backport patches to address security issues in xpdf code:
  CVE-2007-3387 (#248194), CVE-2007-4352 (#345101),
  CVE-2007-5392 (#345111), CVE-2007-5393 (#345121)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #441722 - CVE-2008-1693 xpdf: embedded font vulnerability
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=441722
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update poppler' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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