From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Thu Jan 05 2006 - 07:32:07 CST

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TITLE:
xpdf Multiple Integer Overflow Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA18303

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/18303/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Unknown

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Xpdf 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/4128/
Xpdf 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/920/

DESCRIPTION:
Chris Evans has reported some vulnerabilities in xpdf, which can be
exploited by malicious people with an unknown impact.

The vulnerabilities are caused to several integer overflow errors in
"JBIG2Stream.cc", "Stream.cc" and "JPXStream.cc". This can
potentially be exploited to overflow the allocated memory.

The vulnerability affects version 3.01. Other versions may also be
affected.

SOLUTION:
Restrict use to trusted PDF files only.

Some Linux vendors have released updated packages.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Chris Evans

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Gentoo:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117481

KDE:
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20051207-2.txt

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