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>> KDE Dpdf Multiple Client-Side Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

Title : KDE Dpdf Multiple Client-Side Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-2788
CVE ID : CVE-2005-3191 - CVE-2005-3192 - CVE-2005-3193 - CVE-2005-3624 - CVE-2005-3625 - CVE-2005-3626 - CVE-2005-3627 - CVE-2006-0746
Rated as : High Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-12-07

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Multiple vulnerabilities were identified in KOffice, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. These flaws are due to buffer overflow errors in the Xpdf package used by Kpdf. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2005-2755

Affected Products

KOffice version 1.4.2 and prior

Solution

Patch for KDE 3.5.0 :
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/post-3.5.0-kdegraphics-CAN-2005-3193.diff
Patch for KDE 3.4.3 :
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/post-3.4.3-kdegraphics-CAN-2005-3193.diff
Patch for KDE 3.3.2 :
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/post-3.3.2-kdegraphics-CAN-2005-3193.diff
Patch for KDE 3.2.3 :
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/post-3.2.3-kdegraphics-CAN-2005-3193.diff
Patch for KOffice 1.3.0 and newer :
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/post-1.3-koffice-CAN-2005-3193.diff
Note : The previously published patch for KDE 3.3.x did not completely address these vulnerabilities.
New patch for KDE 3.3.2 :
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/post-3.3.2-kdegraphics-CVE-2006-0746.diff

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2788
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=342294
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20051207-2.txt
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20060310-1.txt

ChangeLog

2005-12-07 : Initial release
2005-12-10 : Updated Solution
2006-03-10 : Updated Solution (new patch)

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