[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: poppler-0.6.2-2.fc8

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-7104
2008-08-07 21:21:08
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Name        : poppler
Product     : Fedora 8
Version     : 0.6.2
Release     : 2.fc8
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 fix:  Add upstream patch for CVE-2008-2950 / oCERT-2008-007 - use of
an uninitialized pointer to call free() in Page::~Page (#454277)
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-007.html
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Jul 30 2008 Tomas Hoger <thoger at redhat.com> - 0.6.2-2
- Security update:
  Add upstream patch for CVE-2008-2950 / oCERT-2008-007 - use of
  an uninitilized pointer to call free() in Page::~Page (#454277)
* Fri Nov 30 2007 Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> - 0.6.2-1
- package xpdf headers in poppler-devel (Jindrich Novy)
- Fix qt3 detection (Denis Leroy)
- Update to 0.6.2
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #454277 - CVE-2008-2950 poppler: uninitialized pointer free (oCERT-2008-007)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454277
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