A bug has been discovered in the font handling code in xpdf, which is also present in kpdf, the PDF viewer for KDE. A specially crafted PDF file could cause infinite resource consumption, in terms of both CPU and disk space. The oldstable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 3.3.2-2sarge1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed as soon as the necessary libraries have made their C++ ABI transition. We recommend that you upgrade your kpdf package.
A bug has been discovered in the font handling code in xpdf, which is also present in kpdf, the PDF viewer for KDE. A specially crafted PDF file could cause infinite resource consumption, in terms of both CPU and disk space.
The oldstable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 3.3.2-2sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed as soon as the necessary libraries have made their C++ ABI transition.
We recommend that you upgrade your kpdf package.
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.