Debian Security Advisory

DSA-971-1 xpdf -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

14 Feb 2006

Affected Packages:

xpdf

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 350783, Bug 350785.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-0301.

More information:

SuSE researchers discovered heap overflow errors in xpdf, the Portable Document Format (PDF) suite, that can allow attackers to cause a denial of service by crashing the application or possibly execute arbitrary code.

The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 3.00-13.5.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 3.01-6.

We recommend that you upgrade your xpdf packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf_3.00-13.5.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf_3.00-13.5.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf_3.00.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-common_3.00-13.5_all.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf_3.00-13.5_all.deb
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-reader_3.00-13.5_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-utils_3.00-13.5_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-reader_3.00-13.5_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-utils_3.00-13.5_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-reader_3.00-13.5_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-utils_3.00-13.5_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-reader_3.00-13.5_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-utils_3.00-13.5_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-reader_3.00-13.5_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-utils_3.00-13.5_ia64.deb
HPPA:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-reader_3.00-13.5_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-utils_3.00-13.5_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-reader_3.00-13.5_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-utils_3.00-13.5_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-reader_3.00-13.5_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-utils_3.00-13.5_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-reader_3.00-13.5_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-utils_3.00-13.5_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-reader_3.00-13.5_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-utils_3.00-13.5_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-reader_3.00-13.5_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-utils_3.00-13.5_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-reader_3.00-13.5_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xpdf/xpdf-utils_3.00-13.5_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.