Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kdegraphics security update

Updated kdegraphics packages that resolve several security issues in kpdf are now available. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kdegraphics packages contain applications for the K Desktop Environment including kpdf, a pdf file...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: gpdf security update

An updated gpdf package that fixes several security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The gpdf package is a GNOME based viewer for Portable Document Format PDF files. Severa...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: cups security update

Updated CUPS packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Common UNIX Printing System CUPS provides a portable printing layer for UNIXR operating...

Fedora Core 4 : xpdf-3.01-0.FC4.5 (2005-1169)

Several flaws were discovered in Xpdf. An attacker could construct a carefully crafted PDF file that could cause xpdf to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code when opened. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project assigned the name CVE-2005-3193 to these issues. Users of xpdf should...

Fedora Core 4 : poppler-0.4.3-1.3 (2005-1171)

Several more flaws were discovered in Xpdf, which poppler is based on. An attacker could construct a carefully crafted PDF file that could cause poppler to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code when opened. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project assigned the name CVE-2005-3193 to the...

Fedora Core 3 : xpdf-3.01-0.FC3.4 (2005-1170)

Several flaws were discovered in Xpdf. An attacker could construct a carefully crafted PDF file that could cause xpdf to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code when opened. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project assigned the name CVE-2005-3193 to these issues. Users of xpdf should...

Fedora Core 4 : cups-1.1.23-15.2 (2005-1142)

This update fixes a security problem in the pdftops filter CVE-2005-3191, CVE-2005-3192, CVE-2005-3193. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much a...

Fedora Core 3 : gpdf-2.8.2-6.2 (2005-1146)

Several more flaws were discovered in Xpdf, which is used internally by gpdf. An attacker could construct a carefully crafted PDF file that could cause gpdf to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code when opened. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project assigned the name CVE-2005-3193 to...

Fedora Core 3 : cups-1.1.22-0.rc1.8.8 (2005-1141)

This update fixes a security problem in the pdftops filter CVE-2005-3191, CVE-2005-3192, CVE-2005-3193. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much a...

Fedora Core 3 : gpdf-2.8.2-5.2 (2005-1125)

Several flaws were discovered in Xpdf, which is used internally by gpdf. An attacker could construct a carefully crafted PDF file that could cause gpdf to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code when opened. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project assigned the name CVE-2005-3193 to thes...

xpdf security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2005:840-01 An updated xpdf package that fixes several security issues is now available. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Updated 20 Dec 2005 The initial fix for these issues was...

CVE-2005-3193

Heap-based buffer overflow in the JPXStream::readCodestream function in the JPX stream parsing code JPXStream.c for xpdf 3.01 and earlier, as used in products such as 1 Poppler, 2 teTeX, 3 KDE kpdf, 4 CUPS, and 5 libextractor allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service heap...

Security fix for the ALT Linux 5 package xpdf version 3.01-alt2pl1

Dec. 7, 2005 Victor Forsyuk 3.01-alt2pl1 - Security fix CAN-2005-3193. - Updated japanese and korean support packages. - Fix allocation size for 64bit architecture. - Fix to don't use freetype internals. - Apply upstream patch to fix resize/redraw...

CVE-2005-3193

The CVE-2005-3193 issue is a heap-based buffer overflow in the JPXStream::readCodestream function of the JPX stream parsing code (JPXStream.c) used by xpdf 3.01 and earlier, and by downstream components such as Poppler, teTeX, KDE kpdf, CUPS, and libextractor. The overflow can be triggered by cra...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: xpdf security update

An updated xpdf package that fixes several security issues is now available. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Updated 20 Dec 2005 The initial fix for these issues was incomplete. The packages have been updated with a more comple...