DSA-972-1 pdfkit.framework -- buffer overflows

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-972-1 pdfkit.framework -- buffer overflows

Date Reported:

15 Feb 2006

Affected Packages:

pdfkit.framework

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-0301.

More information:

SuSE researchers discovered heap overflow errors in xpdf, the Portable Document Format (PDF) suite, which is also present in pdfkit.framework, the GNUstep framework for rendering PDF content, and which can allow attackers to cause a denial of service by crashing the application or possibly execute arbitrary code.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain pdfkit.framework packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.8-2sarge2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 0.8-4 by switching to poppler.

We recommend that you upgrade your pdfkit.framework package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdfkit.framework/pdfkit.framework_0.8-2sarge2.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdfkit.framework/pdfkit.framework_0.8-2sarge2.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdfkit.framework/pdfkit.framework_0.8.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdfkit.framework/pdfkit.framework_0.8-2sarge2_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdfkit.framework/pdfkit.framework_0.8-2sarge2_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdfkit.framework/pdfkit.framework_0.8-2sarge2_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdfkit.framework/pdfkit.framework_0.8-2sarge2_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdfkit.framework/pdfkit.framework_0.8-2sarge2_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdfkit.framework/pdfkit.framework_0.8-2sarge2_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdfkit.framework/pdfkit.framework_0.8-2sarge2_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdfkit.framework/pdfkit.framework_0.8-2sarge2_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdfkit.framework/pdfkit.framework_0.8-2sarge2_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdfkit.framework/pdfkit.framework_0.8-2sarge2_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdfkit.framework/pdfkit.framework_0.8-2sarge2_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdfkit.framework/pdfkit.framework_0.8-2sarge2_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.