Bug 179046 – CVE-2006-0301 PDF splash handling heap overflow

Bug 179046 - CVE-2006-0301 PDF splash handling heap overflow

Summary:	CVE-2006-0301 PDF splash handling heap overflow

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	xpdf (Show other bugs)
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Version:	4.0
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity high
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Assigned To:	Ngo Than
QA Contact:	Mike McLean
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Keywords:	Security

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Reported:	2006-01-26 15:51 EST by Josh Bressers
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:07 EST (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Fixed In Version:	RHSA-2006-0201
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2006-02-13 10:23:05 EST
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Proposed patch (1.35 KB, patch) 2006-01-26 15:54 EST, Josh Bressers	no flags	Details \| Diff
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Description Josh Bressers 2006-01-26 15:51:32 EST

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 15:54:39 EST

Created attachment 123745 [details]
Proposed patch

Comment 4 Ngo Than 2006-01-31 05:38:25 EST

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 10:23:07 EST

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

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