CVE-2005-2097

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Summary

CVECVE-2005-2097
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2005-08-16 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-19 15:32:00 UTC
Descriptionxpdf and kpdf do not properly validate the "loca" table in PDF files, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption and hang) via a PDF file with a "broken" loca table, which causes a large temporary file to be created when xpdf attempts to reconstruct the information.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Kde Kpdf All All All All
Application Kde Kpdf All All All All
Application Xpdf Xpdf 3.0 All All All
Application Xpdf Xpdf 3.0_pl2 All All All
Application Xpdf Xpdf 3.0_pl3 All All All
Application Xpdf Xpdf 3.0 All All All
Application Xpdf Xpdf 3.0_pl2 All All All
Application Xpdf Xpdf 3.0_pl3 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-780-1 kdegraphics DEBIAN www.debian.org
XPDF Loca Table Verification Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support REDHAT www.redhat.com
Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1136-1 gpdf DEBIAN www.debian.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-936-1 libextractor DEBIAN www.debian.org Vendor Advisory
SecurityFocus FEDORA www.securityfocus.com
USN-163-1: xpdf vulnerability | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
Secunia - Advisories - Debian update for gpdf SECUNIA secunia.com
Advisories - Mandriva MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com
Support REDHAT www.redhat.com
Secunia - Advisories - Debian update for libextractor SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Sun Solaris Gnome PDF Viewer Multiple Vulnerabilities - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
102972 SUNALERT sunsolve.sun.com
Secunia - Advisories - libextractor Multiple Xpdf Vulnerabilities SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Secunia - Advisories - SCO OpenServer update for xpdf SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support REDHAT www.redhat.com
SecurityFocus FEDORA www.securityfocus.com
Security Announcement SUSE www.novell.com
SCOSA-2005.42 SCO ftp.sco.com
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support REDHAT www.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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