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Mandriva: Subject: [Security Announce] [ MDVSA-2008:197-1 ] koffice

LinuxSecurity.com: Kees Cook of Ubuntu security found a flaw in how poppler prior to version 0.6 displayed malformed fonts embedded in PDF files. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause applications using poppler to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code when opened (CVE-2008-1693).

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pdffonts(1)						      General Commands Manual						       pdffonts(1)

NAME
pdffonts - Portable Document Format (PDF) font analyzer (version 3.00) SYNOPSIS
pdffonts [options] [PDF-file] DESCRIPTION
Pdffonts lists the fonts used in a Portable Document Format (PDF) file along with various information for each font. The following information is listed for each font: name the font name, exactly as given in the PDF file (potentially including a subset prefix) type the font type -- see below for details emb "yes" if the font is embedded in the PDF file sub "yes" if the font is a subset uni "yes" if there is an explicit "ToUnicode" map in the PDF file (the absence of a ToUnicode map doesn't necessarily mean that the text can't be converted to Unicode) object ID the font dictionary object ID (number and generation) PDF files can contain the following types of fonts: Type 1 Type 1C -- aka Compact Font Format (CFF) Type 3 TrueType CID Type 0 -- 16-bit font with no specified type CID Type 0C -- 16-bit PostScript CFF font CID TrueType -- 16-bit TrueType font OPTIONS
-f number Specifies the first page to analyze. -l number Specifies the last page to analyze. -opw password Specify the owner password for the PDF file. Providing this will bypass all security restrictions. -upw password Specify the user password for the PDF file. -v Print copyright and version information. -h Print usage information. (-help and --help are equivalent.) EXIT CODES
The Xpdf tools use the following exit codes: 0 No error. 1 Error opening a PDF file. 2 Error opening an output file. 3 Error related to PDF permissions. 99 Other error. AUTHOR
The pdffonts software and documentation are copyright 1996-2004 Glyph & Cog, LLC. SEE ALSO
pdftops(1), pdftotext(1), pdfinfo(1), pdftoppm(1), pdfimages(1), 22 January 2004 pdffonts(1)