Important: xpdf security update

An updated xpdf package that fixes multiple security issues is now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red
Hat Security Response Team.

Xpdf is an X Window System based viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF)
files.

Multiple integer overflow flaws were found in Xpdf. An attacker could
create a malicious PDF file that would cause Xpdf to crash or, potentially,
execute arbitrary code when opened. (CVE-2009-0791, CVE-2009-3604,
CVE-2009-3606, CVE-2009-3609)

Red Hat would like to thank Adam Zabrocki for reporting the CVE-2009-3604
issue.

Users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains a
backported patch to correct these issues.

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

491840 - CVE-2009-0791 xpdf: multiple integer overflows
526877 - CVE-2009-3606 xpdf/poppler: PSOutputDev::doImageL1Sep integer overflow
526893 - CVE-2009-3609 xpdf/poppler: ImageStream::ImageStream integer overflow
526911 - CVE-2009-3604 xpdf/poppler: Splash::drawImage integer overflow and missing allocation return value check

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0791
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3604
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3606
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3609
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important