KDE Security Advisory: kpdf Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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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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