Package: xpdf-reader
Version: 3.00-13
Severity: critical
Justification: causes serious data loss



Arbitrary code execution (with privileges as user of package) issues
reported by iDefense:

  Multiple Vendor xpdf DCTStream Baseline Heap Overflow Vulnerability
  Multiple Vendor xpdf DCTStream Progressive Heap Overflow
  Multiple Vendor xpdf StreamPredictor Heap Overflow Vulnerability
  Multiple Vendor xpdf JPX Stream Reader Heap Overflow Vulnerability

  http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=342
  http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=343
  http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=344
  http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=345

(Debian, both woody and sarge, is specifically mentioned as vulnerable.)
Reported also on public mailing lists, see
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-December/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1

Upstream/vendor patches are apparently available.

Cheers,

Paul Szabo   [EMAIL PROTECTED]   http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics   University of Sydney    Australia


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-spm0.5
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages xpdf-reader depends on:
ii  gsfonts            8.14+v8.11+urw-0.2    Fonts for the Ghostscript interpre
ii  lesstif2           1:0.93.94-11.4        OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation relea
ii  libc6              2.3.2.ds1-22          GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libfreetype6       2.1.7-2.4             FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1            1:3.4.3-13            GCC support library
ii  libice6            4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libpaper1          1.1.14-3              Library for handling paper charact
ii  libsm6             4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System Session Management
ii  libstdc++5         1:3.3.5-13            The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libt1-5            5.0.2-3               Type 1 font rasterizer library - r
ii  libx11-6           4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext6           4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxp6             4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System printing extension
ii  libxpm4            4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X pixmap library
ii  libxt6             4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii  xlibs              4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii  xpdf-common        3.00-13               Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
ii  zlib1g             1:1.2.2-4.sarge.2     compression library - runtime

-- no debconf information


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