-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 KDE Security Advisory: kpdf Buffer Overflow Vulnerability Original Release Date: 2004-12-23 URL: http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20041223-1.txt 0. References http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-1125 http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=172&type=vulnerabilities 1. Systems affected: KDE 3.2 up to including KDE 3.2.3. KDE 3.3 up to including KDE 3.3.2. 2. Overview: kpdf, the KDE pdf viewer, shares code with xpdf. xpdf contains a buffer overflow that can be triggered by a specially crafted PDF file. 3. Impact: Remotely supplied pdf files can be used to execute arbitrary code on the client machine. 4. Solution: Source code patches have been made available which fix these vulnerabilities. Contact your OS vendor / binary package provider for information about how to obtain updated binary packages. 5. Patch: Patch for KDE 3.2.3 is available from ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches : 6f345c4b89f0bc27522f5d62bfd941cd post-3.2.3-kdegraphics-2.diff Patch for KDE 3.3.2 is available from ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches : 0ac92868d3b84284e54877e32cde521f post-3.3.2-kdegraphics.diff 6. Time line and credits: 21/12/2004 KDE Security Team alerted by Matthias Geerdsen 22/12/2004 Patch from xpdf 3.00pl2 applied to KDE CVS and patches prepared. 23/12/2004 Public disclosure. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBymz5vsXr+iuy1UoRAgtzAJ9XJZax9tSD29d2ax2kfZ7AOUVNVgCg1GmS 1KHQE843oYavbPBPXVNPJFM= =BiPb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----