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TITLE:
Poppler Invalid Tree Node Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA23813

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23813/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Poppler 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/6386/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Poppler, which can be exploited
by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the handling of
catalog dictionaries or page attributes that reference an invalid
page tree node. This can be exploited to cause an infinite loop by
e.g. tricking a user into opening a specially crafted PDF document.

SOLUTION:
Fixed in the CVS repository.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported in various PDF applications by LMH.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/MOAB-06-01-2007.html

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