Bug#286984: CAN-2004-1125: Arbitrary code execution in tetex-bin

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 30.12.04 Martin Schulze (joey@infodrom.org) wrote:
> Frank Küster wrote:
> > Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org> schrieb:
> > > Frank Küster wrote:
> > >> Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org> schrieb:

Hi,

> > >> > I'm attaching the patch we're using for fixing woody.
> > >> 
> > >> The patch was empty. 
> > >
> > > Uh?  How did that happen?
> > 
> > Don't know. I would still be interested.
> 
> It's basically the same as in this bug report, but it's bogus
> as you correctly pointed out, since the program flow will end
> in the case statement that is able to detect wrong values of
> nComps.
> 
So why is the hunk then included in the patch for xpdf 1.0 (DSA
619-1)? Why is it part of 3.00pl2 at all?

Regards,
  Hilmar
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