Bug 135378

Summary: CAN-2004-0888 xpdf issues affect cups
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component: cupsAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
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Version: 3.0CC: security-response-team
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xpdf 2 patch (will require changes to apply against Cups) none

Description Mark J. Cox 2004-10-12 11:50:07 UTC 
CUPS contains a stripped down version of xpdf.  Recent issues have
been found in xpdf 2 that can result in integer overflows causing bad
memory allocation or out of bounds writes.  It's not expected these
can cause arbitrary code execution, more likely to be DoS crashers.

Embargoed until October 20th 1400UTC

Patch to follow
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Comment 1 Mark J. Cox 2004-10-12 11:50:52 UTC 
Created attachment 105056 [details]
xpdf 2 patch (will require changes to apply against Cups)
Comment 3 Mark J. Cox 2004-10-12 12:25:50 UTC 
CAN-2004-0888.  Actually my comment about arbitrary code execution is
inaccurate since the flaws could allow you to write an arbitrary byte
at an (almost) arbitrary location.  This could possibly lead to
privilege escalation (although it would be hard to do, especially with
Exec-shield).
Comment 4 Josh Bressers 2004-10-22 15:02:55 UTC 
An errata has been issued which should help the problem 
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being 
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, 
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report 
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-543.html
Comment 5 Tim Waugh 2005-02-04 13:06:37 UTC 
Reopening for extra explicit cast: see bug #135393.
Comment 9 Josh Bressers 2005-02-18 15:26:22 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-132.html