Debian DSA-1136-1 : gpdf - wrong input sanitising

low Nessus Plugin ID 22678

Synopsis

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

Description

'infamous41md' and Chris Evans discovered several heap based buffer overflows in xpdf, the Portable Document Format (PDF) suite, which are also present in gpdf, the viewer with Gtk bindings, and which can lead to a denial of service by crashing the application or possibly to the execution of arbitrary code.

Solution

Upgrade the gpdf package.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 2.8.2-1.2sarge5.

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 22678

File Name: debian_DSA-1136.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 10/14/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/2/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/10/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-2097

BID: 14529

DSA: 1136

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