Bug 438336 (CVE-2008-1374) - CVE-2008-1374 cups: incomplete fix for CVE-2004-0888 / CVE-2005-0206
Summary: CVE-2008-1374 cups: incomplete fix for CVE-2004-0888 / CVE-2005-0206
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2008-1374
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 438349 438350 438351
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-03-20 13:18 UTC by Tomas Hoger
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:24 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-04-09 06:22:29 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2008:0206 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: cups security update 2008-04-01 14:23:56 UTC

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
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