Evince crashes when trying to display certain pdf files with error "Unexpected EOF in JBIG2 stream"

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Issue

Evince crashes when trying to display certain pdf files with the following error:

Error (43668): 41854 extraneous bytes after segment
Error (43668): Unexpected EOF in JBIG2 stream

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4
  • poppler-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11

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