Bug 1617827 (CVE-2005-3625) - CVE-2005-3625 security flaw
Summary: CVE-2005-3625 security flaw
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2005-3625
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2018-08-16 04:48 UTC by Stephen Herr
Modified: 2021-11-08 15:22 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-08-16 04:48:39 UTC
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Description Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 04:48:32 UTC 
Flaw bug created to hold information about an old flaw we knew something about. For more details see the MITRE CVE description.
Comment 1 Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 16:33:04 UTC 
MITRE description:

Xpdf, as used in products such as gpdf, kpdf, pdftohtml, poppler, teTeX, CUPS, libextractor, and others, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via streams that end prematurely, as demonstrated using the (1) CCITTFaxDecode and (2) DCTDecode streams, aka "Infinite CPU spins."
Comment 2 Stephen Herr 2019-06-13 19:26:35 UTC 
Statement:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.


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Red Hat would like to thank Chris Evans for reporting this issue.
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