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| From: | KDE | | Date: | 30.12.2004 | | Subject: | KDE Security Advisory: kpdf Buffer Overflow Vulnerability |
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KDE Security Advisory: kpdf Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Original Release Date: 2004-12-23
URL: http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20041223-1.txt
0. References
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-1125
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=172&type=vulnerabilities
1. Systems affected:
KDE 3.2 up to including KDE 3.2.3.
KDE 3.3 up to including KDE 3.3.2.
2. Overview:
kpdf, the KDE pdf viewer, shares code with xpdf. xpdf contains
a buffer overflow that can be triggered by a specially
crafted PDF file.
3. Impact:
Remotely supplied pdf files can be used to execute arbitrary
code on the client machine.
4. Solution:
Source code patches have been made available which fix these
vulnerabilities. Contact your OS vendor / binary package provider
for information about how to obtain updated binary packages.
5. Patch:
Patch for KDE 3.2.3 is available from
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches :
6f345c4b89f0bc27522f5d62bfd941cd post-3.2.3-kdegraphics-2.diff
Patch for KDE 3.3.2 is available from
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches :
0ac92868d3b84284e54877e32cde521f post-3.3.2-kdegraphics.diff
6. Time line and credits:
21/12/2004 KDE Security Team alerted by Matthias Geerdsen
22/12/2004 Patch from xpdf 3.00pl2 applied to KDE CVS and patches
prepared.
23/12/2004 Public disclosure.
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