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Debian DSA-780-1 : kdegraphics - wrong input sanitising

low Nessus Plugin ID 19477

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

A bug has been discovered in the font handling code in xpdf, which is also present in kpdf, the PDF viewer for KDE. A specially crafted PDF file could cause infinite resource consumption, in terms of both CPU and disk space.

The oldstable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.

Solution

Upgrade the kpdf package.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 3.3.2-2sarge1.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-780

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 19477

File Name: debian_DSA-780.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/23/2005

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:kdegraphics, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 8/22/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/9/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-2097

DSA: 780