A vulnerability has been identified in Xpdf, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or compromise an affected system. This issue is caused by an error when processing malformed fonts embedded in PDF files, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application or execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted PDF document.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Kees Cook.
ChangeLog
2008-04-18 : Initial release
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