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Severity: Normal
Title: KPdf, KOffice: More vulnerabilities in included Xpdf
Date: January 11, 2005
Bugs: #75203, #75204
ID: 200501-17

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Synopsis
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KPdf and KOffice both include vulnerable Xpdf code to handle PDF files,
making them vulnerable to the execution of arbitrary code if a user is
enticed to view a malicious PDF file.

Background
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KPdf is a KDE-based PDF viewer included in the kdegraphics package.
KOffice is an integrated office suite for KDE.

Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 app-office/koffice < 1.3.5-r1 >= 1.3.5-r1
2 kde-base/kdegraphics < 3.3.2-r1 >= 3.3.2-r1
*>= 3.2.3-r3
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2 affected packages on all of their supported architectures.
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Description
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KPdf and KOffice both include Xpdf code to handle PDF files. Xpdf is
vulnerable to multiple new integer overflows, as described in GLSA
200412-24.

Impact
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An attacker could entice a user to open a specially-crafted PDF file,
potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the
rights of the user running the affected utility.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All KPdf users should upgrade to the latest version of kdegraphics:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose kde-base/kdegraphics

Note: There is currently no fixed stable 3.3.x version for sparc.

All KOffice users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose app-office/koffice

References
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[ 1 ] GLSA 200412-24
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200412-24.xml
[ 2 ] CAN-2004-1125
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-1125
[ 3 ] KDE Security Advisory: kpdf Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
http://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20041223-1.txt
[ 4 ] KOffice XPDF Integer Overflow 2
http://koffice.kde.org/security/2004_xpdf_integer_overflow_2.php

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200501-17.xml

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security (at) gentoo (dot) org [email concealed] or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2005 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0

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