Secunia Research: KDE Okular PDB Parsing RLE Decompression Buffer Overflow

====================================================================== Secunia Research 25/08/2010 - KDE Okular PDB Parsing RLE Decompression Buffer Overflow - ====================================================================== Table of Contents Affected...

Ubuntu 9.04 / 9.10 / 10.04 LTS : kdegraphics vulnerability (USN-979-1)

Stefan Cornelius of Secunia Research discovered a boundary error during RLE decompression in the 'TranscribePalmImageToJPEG' function in generators/plucker/inplug/image.cpp of okular when processing images embedded in PDB files, which can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow...