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>> Xpdf "Splash.cc" Splash Images Handling Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
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Title : Xpdf "Splash.cc" Splash Images Handling Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-0389
CVE ID : CVE-2006-0301
Rated as : High Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-01-31
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A vulnerability has been identified in Xpdf, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This flaw is due to a heap overflow error in "splash/Splash.cc" when processing malformed splash images that produce certain values that exceed the "width" or "height" of the associated bitmap, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code by convincing a user to open a specially crafted document via an application linked against a vulnerable version of Xpdf.
Affected Products
Xpdf version 3.01 and prior
Solution
Apply patch (xpdf-3.01pl2.patch) :
ftp://ftp.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf/
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0389
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=179046
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Dirk Mueller
ChangeLog
2006-01-31 : Initial release
2006-02-08 : Updated Solution
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