Package: xpdf Version: 3.02-11 Severity: normal Tags: security
Hi Debian xpdf maintainers! Thanks a lot for maintaining my favorite PDF viewer! I noticed a little regression (probably introduced during the conversion into a libpoppler front-end). In the past, xpdf used to pop up a useful dialog window to ask the user for a password, when dealing with password-protected PDF files. After typing the password in, the user was able to view the contents of the password-protected PDF file. Nowadays, when the user attempts to view a password-protected PDF file, no dialog window is shown and xpdf exits immediately with the following error: $ xpdf protected_file.pdf Error: Incorrect password $ echo $? 1 On the other hand, if the user provides the correct password through the command-line option: $ xpdf -upw my_secret_password protected_file.pdf everything works fine and the file contents are correctly visualized. Of course, requiring the user to provide a password on the command line is not a good idea, from a security point of view: the password (in clear) is visible to anyone who takes a look at the screen, it's saved in the shell history, and so forth. As a consequence, I miss the old "insert password" dialog window! Could this feature be restored, please? Thanks for your time! N.B.: Before filing this bug report, I took a look at the already filed ones and noticed bug #601375. I thought it could be the same issue, but it probably isn't, since the file mentioned in that bug report gives me a different error message: $ xpdf HTUSA-EBU4-3.pdf Error: Weird encryption info Error: Incorrect password -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages xpdf depends on: ii lesstif2 1:0.95.2-1 OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation relea ii libc6 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-8 GCC support library ii libpoppler5 0.12.4-1.2 PDF rendering library ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-4 X11 client-side library ii libxt6 1:1.0.7-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library Versions of packages xpdf recommends: ii gsfonts-x11 0.21 Make Ghostscript fonts available t ii poppler-data 0.4.3-1 Encoding data for the poppler PDF ii poppler-utils 0.12.4-1.2 PDF utilitites (based on libpopple xpdf suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
