DSA-971-1 xpdf -- buffer overflow

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-971-1 xpdf -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

14 Feb 2006

Affected Packages:

xpdf

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 350783, Bug 350785.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-0301.

More information:

SuSE researchers discovered heap overflow errors in xpdf, the Portable Document Format (PDF) suite, that can allow attackers to cause a denial of service by crashing the application or possibly execute arbitrary code.

The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 3.00-13.5.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 3.01-6.

We recommend that you upgrade your xpdf packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf_3.00-13.5.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf_3.00-13.5.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf_3.00.orig.tar.gz

Architecture-independent component:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-common_3.00-13.5_all.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf_3.00-13.5_all.deb

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-reader_3.00-13.5_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-utils_3.00-13.5_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-reader_3.00-13.5_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-utils_3.00-13.5_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-reader_3.00-13.5_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-utils_3.00-13.5_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-reader_3.00-13.5_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-utils_3.00-13.5_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-reader_3.00-13.5_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-utils_3.00-13.5_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-reader_3.00-13.5_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-utils_3.00-13.5_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-reader_3.00-13.5_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-utils_3.00-13.5_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-reader_3.00-13.5_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-utils_3.00-13.5_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-reader_3.00-13.5_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-utils_3.00-13.5_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-reader_3.00-13.5_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-utils_3.00-13.5_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-reader_3.00-13.5_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-utils_3.00-13.5_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-reader_3.00-13.5_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-utils_3.00-13.5_sparc.deb

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