Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1136-1 gpdf -- wrong input sanitising
- Date Reported:
- 02 Aug 2006
- Affected Packages:
- gpdf
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 334454.
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 14529.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-2097. - More information:
-
infamous41md
and Chris Evans discovered several heap based buffer overflows in xpdf, the Portable Document Format (PDF) suite, which are also present in gpdf, the viewer with Gtk bindings, and which can lead to a denial of service by crashing the application or possibly to the execution of arbitrary code.For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 2.8.2-1.2sarge5.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 2.10.0-4.
We recommend that you upgrade your gpdf package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gpdf/gpdf_2.8.2-1.2sarge5.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gpdf/gpdf_2.8.2-1.2sarge5.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gpdf/gpdf_2.8.2.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gpdf/gpdf_2.8.2-1.2sarge5.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gpdf/gpdf_2.8.2-1.2sarge5_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gpdf/gpdf_2.8.2-1.2sarge5_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gpdf/gpdf_2.8.2-1.2sarge5_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gpdf/gpdf_2.8.2-1.2sarge5_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gpdf/gpdf_2.8.2-1.2sarge5_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gpdf/gpdf_2.8.2-1.2sarge5_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gpdf/gpdf_2.8.2-1.2sarge5_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gpdf/gpdf_2.8.2-1.2sarge5_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gpdf/gpdf_2.8.2-1.2sarge5_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gpdf/gpdf_2.8.2-1.2sarge5_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gpdf/gpdf_2.8.2-1.2sarge5_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gpdf/gpdf_2.8.2-1.2sarge5_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.