Bug 81146 - Colour index overflow attack
Summary: Colour index overflow attack
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: xpdf
Version: 8.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Than Ngo
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-01-06 05:11 UTC by Michal Jaegermann
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:49 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-02-10 08:33:05 UTC
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Description Michal Jaegermann 2003-01-06 05:11:03 UTC
Description of problem:

http://www.idefense.com/advisory/12.23.02.txt describes how to attack
pdftops filter used, among other things, by CUPS.  That advisory is
specifically for a version of xpdf currently in rawhide but it mentions
that it applies to all earlier versions as well.  It also includes a
reference to a patch (although 'indexHighA != indexHighA && 0xff' test
would be likely marginally simpler).

Comment 1 Mark J. Cox 2003-01-08 11:12:12 UTC
known issue, erratum for CUPS and Xpdf packages is in progress

Comment 2 Mark J. Cox 2003-02-10 08:33:05 UTC
CUPS was released some time ago, xpdf updates were completed last week.
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-037.html


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