Bug 147480

Summary:	CAN-2004-0888 xpdf issues affect cups (CAN-2005-0206)
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Component:	cups	Assignee:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	4.0	CC:	bressers, mjc
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Description Tim Waugh 2005-02-08 13:44:49 UTC

*** This bug has been split off bug 135378 ***

This issue affects RHEL4 as well.

------- Original comment by Mark J. Cox (Security Response Team) on 2004.10.12
07:50 -------

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
CVE names to follow

Comment 3 Mark J. Cox 2005-02-15 09:47:20 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-2005-053.html