Waldo Bastian
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KDE Security Advisory: KOffice PDF Import Filter Vulnerability
Original Release Date: 2005-01-20
URL: http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050120-1.txt
0. References
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCAN-2005-0064
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=3D186&type=3Dvulnerab=
ilities
1. Systems affected:
KOffice 1.3 up to including KOffice 1.3.5
2. Overview:
The KOffice PDF Import Filter 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 when the user opens such file in
KOffice.
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 KOffice 1.3.5 is available from=20
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches :
0e6194cbfe3f6d3b3c848c2c76ef5bfb post-1.3.5-koffice.diff
6. Time line and credits:
19/01/2005 KDE Security Team alerted by Carsten Lohrke
19/01/2005 Patches from xpdf 3.00pl3 applied to KDE CVS and patches
prepared.=20
20/01/2005 Public disclosure.
=2D-=20
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KDE Security Advisory: KOffice PDF Import Filter Vulnerability
Original Release Date: 2005-01-20
URL: http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050120-1.txt
0. References
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCAN-2005-0064
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=3D186&type=3Dvulnerab=
ilities
1. Systems affected:
KOffice 1.3 up to including KOffice 1.3.5
2. Overview:
The KOffice PDF Import Filter 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 when the user opens such file in
KOffice.
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 KOffice 1.3.5 is available from=20
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches :
0e6194cbfe3f6d3b3c848c2c76ef5bfb post-1.3.5-koffice.diff
6. Time line and credits:
19/01/2005 KDE Security Team alerted by Carsten Lohrke
19/01/2005 Patches from xpdf 3.00pl3 applied to KDE CVS and patches
prepared.=20
20/01/2005 Public disclosure.
=2D-=20
bastian@kde.org | Free Novell Linux Desktop 9 Evaluation Download
bastian@suse.com | http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/eval.html
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