Re: 2.99.1: new beta / almost release candidate

Hello,

Thomas Esser wrote:

>Well, shortly after 2.99.0, we now see this 2.99.1 release. [...]
>Changes in the src area:
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I've a question: PDFTeX uses the XPDF library and there had been 
recently security problems detected (CAN-2004-0888, CAN-2004-0889).

Are these already fixed in the xpdf library, included in teTeX?

Tobias

cf.
- http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:113
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200410-20.xml
- http://www.suse.com/de/security/2004_39_pdftools_cups.html

- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0888
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0889