Patch from upstream, not yet available in latest stable release--
http://www.logilab.org/revision/207574
--to fix CVE-2014-1838.
diff -rupN logilab-common-0.58.2-orig/ChangeLog logilab-common-0.58.2/ChangeLog
--- logilab-common-0.58.2-orig/ChangeLog 2012-07-30 06:06:59.000000000 -0700
+++ logilab-common-0.58.2/ChangeLog 2014-03-14 10:34:00.085719000 -0700
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
ChangeLog for logilab.common
============================
+2014-02-03
+ * pdf_ext: removed, it had no known users (CVE-2014-1838)
+
+
2012-07-30 -- 0.58.2
* modutils: fixes (closes #100757 and #100935)
diff -rupN logilab-common-0.58.2-orig/pdf_ext.py logilab-common-0.58.2/pdf_ext.py
--- logilab-common-0.58.2-orig/pdf_ext.py 2012-07-30 06:06:59.000000000 -0700
+++ logilab-common-0.58.2/pdf_ext.py 1969-12-31 16:00:00.000000000 -0800
@@ -1,111 +0,0 @@
-# copyright 2003-2011 LOGILAB S.A. (Paris, FRANCE), all rights reserved.
-# contact http://www.logilab.fr/ -- mailto:[email protected]
-#
-# This file is part of logilab-common.
-#
-# logilab-common is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
-# the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free
-# Software Foundation, either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any
-# later version.
-#
-# logilab-common is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
-# ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
-# FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more
-# details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along
-# with logilab-common. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-"""Manipulate pdf and fdf files (pdftk recommended).
-
-Notes regarding pdftk, pdf forms and fdf files (form definition file)
-fields names can be extracted with:
-
- pdftk orig.pdf generate_fdf output truc.fdf
-
-to merge fdf and pdf:
-
- pdftk orig.pdf fill_form test.fdf output result.pdf [flatten]
-
-without flatten, one could further edit the resulting form.
-with flatten, everything is turned into text.
-
-
-
-
-"""
-__docformat__ = "restructuredtext en"
-# XXX seems very unix specific
-# TODO: check availability of pdftk at import
-
-
-import os
-
-HEAD="""%FDF-1.2
-%\xE2\xE3\xCF\xD3
-1 0 obj
-<<
-/FDF
-<<
-/Fields [
-"""
-
-TAIL="""]
->>
->>
-endobj
-trailer
-
-<<
-/Root 1 0 R
->>
-%%EOF
-"""
-
-def output_field( f ):
- return "\xfe\xff" + "".join( [ "\x00"+c for c in f ] )
-
-def extract_keys(lines):
- keys = []
- for line in lines:
- if line.startswith('/V'):
- pass #print 'value',line
- elif line.startswith('/T'):
- key = line[7:-2]
- key = ''.join(key.split('\x00'))
- keys.append( key )
- return keys
-
-def write_field(out, key, value):
- out.write("<<\n")
- if value:
- out.write("/V (%s)\n" %value)
- else:
- out.write("/V /\n")
- out.write("/T (%s)\n" % output_field(key) )
- out.write(">> \n")
-
-def write_fields(out, fields):
- out.write(HEAD)
- for (key, value, comment) in fields:
- write_field(out, key, value)
- write_field(out, key+"a", value) # pour copie-carbone sur autres pages
- out.write(TAIL)
-
-def extract_keys_from_pdf(filename):
- # what about using 'pdftk filename dump_data_fields' and parsing the output ?
- os.system('pdftk %s generate_fdf output /tmp/toto.fdf' % filename)
- lines = file('/tmp/toto.fdf').readlines()
- return extract_keys(lines)
-
-
-def fill_pdf(infile, outfile, fields):
- write_fields(file('/tmp/toto.fdf', 'w'), fields)
- os.system('pdftk %s fill_form /tmp/toto.fdf output %s flatten' % (infile, outfile))
-
-def testfill_pdf(infile, outfile):
- keys = extract_keys_from_pdf(infile)
- fields = []
- for key in keys:
- fields.append( (key, key, '') )
- fill_pdf(infile, outfile, fields)
-
diff -rupN logilab-common-0.58.2-orig/README logilab-common-0.58.2/README
--- logilab-common-0.58.2-orig/README 2012-07-30 06:06:59.000000000 -0700
+++ logilab-common-0.58.2/README 2014-03-14 10:26:18.058139000 -0700
@@ -123,8 +123,6 @@ Modules extending some external modules
* `hg`, some Mercurial_ utility functions.
-* `pdf_ext`, pdf and fdf file manipulations, with pdftk.
-
* `pyro_ext`, some Pyro_ utility functions.
* `sphinx_ext`, Sphinx_ plugin defining a `autodocstring` directive.