CVE-2005-3191

Summary

CVECVE-2005-3191
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2005-12-07 01:03:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionMultiple heap-based buffer overflows in the (1) DCTStream::readProgressiveSOF and (2) DCTStream::readBaselineSOF functions in the DCT stream parsing code (Stream.cc) in xpdf 3.01 and earlier, as used in products such as (a) Poppler, (b) teTeX, (c) KDE kpdf, (d) pdftohtml, (e) KOffice KWord, (f) CUPS, and (g) libextractor allow user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (heap corruption) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file with an out-of-range number of components (numComps), which is used as an array index.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5.1 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-119 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
High
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Xpdf Xpdf 0.90 All All All
Application Xpdf Xpdf 0.91 All All All
Application Xpdf Xpdf 0.92 All All All
Application Xpdf Xpdf 0.93 All All All
Application Xpdf Xpdf 1.0 All All All
Application Xpdf Xpdf 1.0a All All All
Application Xpdf Xpdf 1.1 All All All
Application Xpdf Xpdf 2.0 All All All
Application Xpdf Xpdf 2.1 All All All
Application Xpdf Xpdf 2.2 All All All
Application Xpdf Xpdf 2.3 All All All
Application Xpdf Xpdf 3.0 All All All
Application Xpdf Xpdf 3.0.1 All All All
Application Xpdf Xpdf 3.0_pl2 All All All
Application Xpdf Xpdf 3.0_pl3 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

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Secunia - Advisories - CUPS xpdf Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Advisories - Mandriva Linux OS af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
Secunia - Advisories - Debian update for koffice af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com Vendor Advisory
Multiple Vendor xpdf DCTStream Progressive Heap Overflow - CXSecurity.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securityreason.com
Secunia - Advisories - KDE kpdf Xpdf Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
XPDF DCTStream Progressive Remote Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
rPath update for cups, poppler, and tetex - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Secunia - Advisories - Debian update for pdftohtml af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Secunia - Advisories - Poppler Xpdf Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Secunia - Advisories - GNOME gpdf Xpdf Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
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[SECURITY] Fedora Core 3 Update: tetex-2.0.2-21.5 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Secunia - Advisories - teTeX Xpdf Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
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patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060101-01-U af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 patches.sgi.com
SecurityTracker.com Archives - Xpdf Buffer Overflows in Processing DCT and JPX Streams May Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securitytracker.com
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Secunia - Advisories - libextractor Multiple Xpdf Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
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Secunia - Advisories - SUSE update for multiple packages af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Secunia - Advisories - KOffice KWord PDF Filter Xpdf Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Advisories - Mandriva Linux OS af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
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Secunia - Advisories - Red Hat update for cups af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-950-1 cupsys af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
Secunia - Advisories - UnixWare update for CUPS af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Debian -- Page not found af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
Secunia - Advisories - Debian update for pdfkit.framework af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2006.20/SCOSA-2006.20.txt af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ftp.sco.com
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www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0072 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.trustix.org
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com Vendor Advisory
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Secunia - Advisories - GNUStep PDFKit Framework Xpdf Multiple Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
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Advisories - Mandriva Linux OS af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
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[SECURITY] Fedora Core 4 Update: tetex-3.0-7.FC4 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Secunia - Advisories - Mandriva update for cups af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2006.21/SCOSA-2006.21.txt af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ftp.sco.com
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issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1609 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 issues.rpath.com
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#342289 - xpdf security problems partially affect pdftohtml as well - Debian Bug report logs af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.debian.org
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SUSE update for multiple packages - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
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Webmail - OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
Secunia - Advisories - Red Hat update for kdegraphics af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Secunia - Advisories - Red Hat update for tetex af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20051207-1.txt af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.kde.org
Security Announcement af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.novell.com
Secunia - Advisories - Mandriva update for tetex af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Advisories - Mandriva Linux af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Xpdf, GPdf, CUPS, Poppler: Multiple vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.gentoo.org
Secunia - Advisories - Debian update for libextractor af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Advisories - Mandriva Linux OS af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
Secunia - Advisories - Debian update for tetex-bin af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20051201-01-U af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 patches.sgi.com
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Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2007-03-14Mark J CoxRed Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.
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