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                                  CERT-Renater

                       Note d'Information No. 2004/VULN570
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DATE                      : 23/12/2004

HARDWARE PLATFORM(S)      : /

OPERATING SYSTEM(S)       : Systems running KDE 3.2 up to including KDE 3.2.3,
                                    KDE 3.3 up to including KDE 3.3.2.

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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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