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KDE Security Advisory 2004-12-23.1

KDE Security Advisory 2004-12-23.1
Posted Dec 31, 2004
Authored by KDE Desktop | Site kde.org

KDE Security Advisory: kpdf, the KDE pdf viewer, shares code with xpdf. xpdf contains a buffer overflow that can be triggered by a specially crafted PDF file.

tags | advisory, overflow
advisories | CVE-2004-1125
SHA-256 | 34a96e4ccfc6bc38f130061fe7d69adb1d54fb95e91f6eb8ea657e2605e23145

KDE Security Advisory 2004-12-23.1

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KDE Security Advisory: kpdf Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Original Release Date: 2004-12-23
URL: http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20041223-1.txt

0. References

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-1125
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=172&type=vulnerabilities


1. Systems affected:

KDE 3.2 up to including KDE 3.2.3.
KDE 3.3 up to including KDE 3.3.2.


2. Overview:

kpdf, the KDE pdf viewer, shares code with xpdf. xpdf contains
a buffer overflow that can be triggered by a specially
crafted PDF file.


3. Impact:

Remotely supplied pdf files can be used to execute arbitrary
code on the client machine.


4. Solution:

Source code patches have been made available which fix these
vulnerabilities. Contact your OS vendor / binary package provider
for information about how to obtain updated binary packages.


5. Patch:

Patch for KDE 3.2.3 is available from
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches :

6f345c4b89f0bc27522f5d62bfd941cd post-3.2.3-kdegraphics-2.diff

Patch for KDE 3.3.2 is available from
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches :

0ac92868d3b84284e54877e32cde521f post-3.3.2-kdegraphics.diff


6. Time line and credits:

21/12/2004 KDE Security Team alerted by Matthias Geerdsen
22/12/2004 Patch from xpdf 3.00pl2 applied to KDE CVS and patches
prepared.
23/12/2004 Public disclosure.


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