Bug 163918

Summary: CAN-2005-2097 xpdf DoS
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: xpdfAssignee: Than Ngo <than>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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Version: 4.0CC: security-response-team
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OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: impact=moderate,source=vendorsec,reported=20050721,public=20050809
Fixed In Version: RHSA-2005-670 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Proposed patch for this issue. none

Description Josh Bressers 2005-07-21 23:26:31 UTC
A broken PDF file is will create a file in /tmp and continue to fill it until
the filesystem is full.

Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2005-07-21 23:29:38 UTC
Created attachment 117043 [details]
Proposed patch for this issue.

Comment 3 Than Ngo 2005-07-25 14:08:01 UTC
it's already fixed in xpdf-3_00-11_7.

Comment 5 Josh Bressers 2005-08-09 15:30:51 UTC
Lifting embargo

Comment 6 Red Hat Bugzilla 2005-08-09 16:13:17 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-2005-670.html