Flaw bug created to hold information about an old flaw we knew something about. For more details see the MITRE CVE description.
MITRE description: The CCITTFaxStream::CCITTFaxStream function in Stream.cc for xpdf, gpdf, kpdf, pdftohtml, poppler, teTeX, CUPS, libextractor, and others allows attackers to corrupt the heap via negative or large integers in a CCITTFaxDecode stream, which lead to integer overflows and integer underflows.
Statement: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch. Acknowledgments: Red Hat would like to thank Chris Evans for reporting this issue.