Title: XPDF Loca Table Verification Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
The 'xpdf' utility is an open-source implementation of a PDF viewer for the X Window System.
The utility is prone to a remote denial-of-service vulnerability. This issue arises because the application fails to handle exceptional conditions in a proper manner.
Specifically, the vulnerability presents itself when the application tries to verify the validity of the 'loca' table in PDF files. This table contains glyph information for embedded TrueType fonts. If the table is not valid, xpdf tries to recreate the information in it, resulting in an infinitely large file in the 'tmp' directory.
This can result in disk consumption and ultimately lead to a denial-of-service condition.
The kpdf, gpdf, and CUPS utilities are vulnerable to this issue as well.
Affected Products:
- Avaya Interactive Response 2.0
- Conectiva Linux 10.0.0
- Debian Linux 3.1.0
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 alpha
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 amd64
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 arm
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 hppa
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 ia-32
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 ia-64
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 m68k
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 mips
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 mipsel
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 ppc
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 s/390
- Debian Linux 3.1.0 sparc
- GNOME GPdf 2.1.0
- GNOME GPdf 2.8.0
- GNOME GPdf 2.8.3
- Gentoo Linux
- KDE KDE 3.3.1
- KDE KDE 3.3.2
- KDE KDE 3.3.2
- KDE KDE 3.4.0
- KDE KDE 3.4.1
- MandrakeSoft Corporate Server 2.1.0
- MandrakeSoft Corporate Server 2.1.0 x86_64
- MandrakeSoft Corporate Server 3.0.0
- MandrakeSoft Corporate Server 3.0.0 x86_64
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 10.0.0
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 10.0.0 amd64
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 10.1.0
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 10.1.0 x86_64
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 10.2.0
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 10.2.0 x86_64
- RedHat Desktop 4.0.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 4
- RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 4
- RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 4
- RedHat Fedora Core1
- RedHat Fedora Core2
- RedHat Fedora Core3
- RedHat Fedora Core4
- RedHat Linux 7.3.0 i386
- RedHat Linux 9.0.0 i386
- S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.3.0
- S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.3.0 x86_64
- S.u.S.E. Linux Professional 9.3.0
- S.u.S.E. Linux Professional 9.3.0 x86_64
- SCO Open Server 5.0.7
- SCO Open Server 6.0.0
- SGI ProPack 3.0.0 SP6
- Sun Solaris 10.0
- Sun Solaris 10.0_x86
- Trustix Secure Enterprise Linux 2.0.0
- Trustix Secure Linux 2.2.0
- Trustix Secure Linux 3.0.0
- Turbolinux Appliance Server 1.0.0 Hosting Edition
- Turbolinux Appliance Server 1.0.0 Workgroup Edition
- Turbolinux Appliance Server Hosting Edition 1.0.0
- Turbolinux Appliance Server Workgroup Edition 1.0.0
- Turbolinux Home
- Turbolinux Multimedia
- Turbolinux Personal
- Turbolinux Turbolinux 10 F...
- Turbolinux Turbolinux Desktop 10.0.0
- Turbolinux Turbolinux Server 10.0.0
- Turbolinux Turbolinux Server 8.0.0
- Turbolinux Turbolinux Workstation 8.0.0
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 4.1.0 ia32
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 4.1.0 ia64
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 4.1.0 ppc
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 5.0.0 4 amd64
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 5.0.0 4 i386
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 5.0.0 4 powerpc
- Xpdf Xpdf 3.0.0 0
- Xpdf Xpdf 3.0.0 pl2
- Xpdf Xpdf 3.0.0 pl3
References:
- Avaya: ASA-2007-281 - Multiple Security Vulnerabilities in the Solaris Gnome PDF Viewer
- RedHat: RHSA-2005:670-05 - xpdf
- RedHat: RHSA-2005:671-03 - kdegraphics
- RedHat: RHSA-2005:708-05 - gpdf
- Sun: Sun Alert ID: 102972 - Multiple Security Vulnerabilities in the Solaris Gnome PD
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