Dr. Volker Zell,Recent versions of xpdf suffer from several buffer overflow vulnerabilities (more information at the URLs below).
Solution: upgrade to 3.01 and apply the upstream 3.01pl1 patch, both available from the xpdf download site.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114428 http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=342&type=vulnerabilities http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=343&type=vulnerabilities http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=344&type=vulnerabilities http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=345&type=vulnerabilities Yaakov
