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Category Security Release Phase Resolved 6827182 Product OpenSolaris Date of Resolved Release 13-Oct-2009 Multiple security vulnerabilities in the JBIG2 decoding feature: 1. Impact Multiple security vulnerabilities in the JBIG2 decoding feature in the Poppler PDF Rendering Library (libpoppler) may allow a local or remote unprivileged user to cause the OpenSolaris GNOME PDF Viewer (Evince) to crash and potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application, when the user has loaded a specially crafted PDF file. These issues are also referenced in the following documents: CVE-2009-0165 at: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0165 CVE-2009-0146 at: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0146 CVE-2009-0147 at: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0147 CVE-2009-0166 at: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0166 CVE-2009-1187 at: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1187 CVE-2009-1188 at: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1188 Sun acknowledges with thanks, Braden Thomas and Drew Yao of Apple Product Security for bringing the issues described in CVE-2009-0165, CVE-2009-0146, CVE-2009-0147 and CVE-2009-0166 to our attention. 2. Contributing Factors These issues can occur in the following releases: SPARC Platform
Note 2 : OpenSolaris distributions may include additional bug fixes above and beyond the build from which it was derived. To determine the base build of OpenSolaris, the following command can be used: $ uname -v
3. SymptomsShould the described issues occur, evince(1) may crash and potentially create a core dump depending on the system configuration. There are no predictable symptoms to indicate that these issues have been exploited to execute arbitrary code. 4. Workaround To workaround the described issues, do not load PDF files from untrusted sources. 5. Resolution These issues are addressed in the following releases: SPARC Platform
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