GLSA-200608-22 : fbida: Arbitrary command execution

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200608-22 fbida: Arbitrary command execution Toth Andras has discovered a typographic mistake in the 'fbgs' script, shipped with fbida if the 'fbcon' and 'pdf' USE flags are both enabled. This script runs 'gs' without the -dSAFER...

CentOS 3 / 4 : cups (CESA-2005:706)

Updated CUPS packages that fix a security issue 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 systems...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 / 5.10 : kdegraphics, koffice, xpdf, cupsys, poppler, tetex-bin vulnerabilities (USN-270-1)

Derek Noonburg discovered several integer overflows in the XPDF code, which is present in xpdf, the Poppler library, and tetex-bin. By tricking an user into opening a specially crafted PDF file, an attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the application that...

RHEL 4 : kdegraphics (RHSA-2006:0262)

Updated kdegraphics packages that fully resolve a security issue 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...

kdegraphics security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2006:0262 Updated kdegraphics packages that fully resolve a security issue 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 th...

GPdf: heap overflows in included Xpdf code

Background GPdf is a Gnome PDF viewer. Description Dirk Mueller found a heap overflow vulnerability in the XPdf codebase when handling splash images that exceed size of the associated bitmap. Impact An attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted PDF file with GPdf, potentially...

Adobe Reader Detection

Adobe Reader, a PDF file viewer, is installed on the remote host. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid20836; scriptversion"1.38"; scriptsetattributeattribute:"pluginmodificationdate", value:"2025/08/06"; scriptxrefname:"IAVT", value:"0001-T-0524";...

Fedora Core 4 : kdegraphics-3.5.0-0.2.fc4 (2006-037)

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 kdegraphics...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : tetex (MDKSA-2006:011)

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the DCTStream::readProgressiveSOF and DCTStream::readBaselineSOF functions in the DCT stream parsing code Stream.cc in xpdf 3.01 and earlier, allow user-complicit attackers to cause a denial of service heap corruption and possibly execute arbitrary code via...

Fedora Core 4 : xpdf-3.01-0.FC4.6 (2006-027)

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...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : koffice (MDKSA-2006:008)

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the DCTStream::readProgressiveSOF and DCTStream::readBaselineSOF functions in the DCT stream parsing code Stream.cc in xpdf 3.01 and earlier, allow user-complicit attackers to cause a denial of service heap corruption and possibly execute arbitrary code via...

RHEL 3 / 4 : cups (RHSA-2006:0163)

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...

USN-236-2: xpdf vulnerabilities in kword, kpdf

USN-236-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in xpdf. kpdf and kword contain copies of xpdf code and are thus vulnerable to the same issues. For reference, this is the original advisory: Chris Evans discovered several integer overflows in the XPDF code, which is present in xpdf, the Poppler library, a...

RHEL 4 : kdegraphics (RHSA-2005:868)

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...

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...

CVE-2005-3192

Heap-based buffer overflow in the StreamPredictor function in Xpdf 3.01, as used in products such as 1 Poppler, 2 teTeX, 3 KDE kpdf, and 4 pdftohtml, 5 KOffice KWord, 6 CUPS, and 7 libextractor allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PDF file with an out-of-range numComps number o...

CVE-2005-3192

Heap-based buffer overflow in the StreamPredictor function in Xpdf 3.01, as used in products such as 1 Poppler, 2 teTeX, 3 KDE kpdf, and 4 pdftohtml, 5 KOffice KWord, 6 CUPS, and 7 libextractor allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PDF file with an out-of-range numComps number o...

CVE-2005-3192

Heap-based buffer overflow in the StreamPredictor function in Xpdf 3.01, as used in products such as 1 Poppler, 2 teTeX, 3 KDE kpdf, and 4 pdftohtml, 5 KOffice KWord, 6 CUPS, and 7 libextractor allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PDF file with an out-of-range numComps number o...

Fedora Core 4 : tetex-3.0-7.FC4 (2005-1126)

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 teTeX package contains a copy of the Xpdf code used for parsing PDF files and is therefore affected by this bug.The...

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...