Bug 179046

Summary: CVE-2006-0301 PDF splash handling heap overflow
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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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: impact=important,embargo=yes,reported=20060126,source=vendorsec
Fixed In Version: RHSA-2006-0201 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Josh Bressers 2006-01-26 20:51:32 UTC 
PDF splash handling heap overflow

Dirk Mueller told vendor-sec about a buffer overflow issue in the xpdf
codebase when handling splash images.


This issue also affects RHEL3
This issue also affects RHEL2.1
Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2006-01-26 20:54:39 UTC 
Created attachment 123745 [details]
Proposed patch
Comment 4 Than Ngo 2006-01-31 10:38:25 UTC 
The new PDF rasterizer "Splash" is included in xpdf-3.00 and newer, so
this issue is only effected in RHEL4 and FC5/FC5.
Comment 13 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-13 15:23:07 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-2006-0201.html