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>> Xpdf "Catalog::readPageTree()" Catalog Dictionary Handling Denial of Service Issue
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Title : Xpdf "Catalog::readPageTree()" Catalog Dictionary Handling Denial of Service Issue
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-0203
CVE ID : CVE-2007-0104
Rated as : Low Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-01-16
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A vulnerability has been identified in Xpdf, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service. This issue is due to an infinite loop in the "Catalog::readPageTree()" function when processing a PDF document containing a specially crafted catalog dictionary or Pages attribute that references an invalid page tree node, which could be exploited by attackers to crash a vulnerable application via a malformed PDF file.
Affected Products
Xpdf version 3.0.1 (patch 2) and prior
Solution
VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0203
http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/MOAB-06-01-2007.html
Credits
Vulnerability reported by LMH
ChangeLog
2007-01-16 : Initial release
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