Bug 1027548 (CVE-2013-6474)

Summary:	CVE-2013-6474 cups-filters: heap-based buffer overflow flaw in pdftoopvp
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Murray McAllister <mmcallis>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	fweimer, security-response-team, twaugh, vdanen
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	1074840
Bug Blocks:	1002935, 1010117

Description Murray McAllister 2013-11-07 04:16:52 UTC

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the pdftoopvp filter. If a malicious PDF file were processed, it could lead to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the "lp" user. This issue was due to the following fix not being present in pdftoopvp:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17326
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/poppler/2008-August/004021.html

Acknowledgements:

This issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of the Red Hat Product Security Team.

Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-03-11 05:14:49 UTC

Public via:

http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/openprinting/cups-filters/revision/7176

This issue has been resolved in upstream cups-filters-1.0.47

Comment 3 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-03-11 05:18:19 UTC

Created cups-filters tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1074840]