Bug 438336 (CVE-2008-1374)

Summary:	CVE-2008-1374 cups: incomplete fix for CVE-2004-0888 / CVE-2005-0206
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Tomas Hoger <thoger>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	kreilly, security-response-team, twaugh
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Bug Depends On:	438349, 438350, 438351
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Description Tomas Hoger 2008-03-20 13:18:34 UTC

It was discovered that patch applied to cups packages as shipped in Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 3 and 4 to address security issues in xpdf code known as
CVE-2004-0888 / CVE-2005-0206 was incomplete.

On certain platforms, malicious pdf file could still cause a crash or possibly
cause code execution when it's processed by pdftops filter.

This issue affects 64-bit platforms.  cups packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 are not affected by this problem.

Comment 5 Red Hat Product Security 2008-04-09 06:22:29 UTC

This issue was addressed in:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
  http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0206.html