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Ubuntu Security Notice 236-1

Posted Jan 8, 2006

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-236-1 - Chris Evans discovered several integer overflows in the XPDF code, which is present in xpdf, the Poppler library, and tetex-bin. By tricking an user into opening a specially crafted PDF file, an attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the application that processes the document.

tags | advisory, overflow, arbitrary

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2005-3624, CVE-2005-3625, CVE-2005-3626, CVE-2005-3627

SHA-256 | 4e65f9e03fe3b5f4069685320e3f496dda2bbf8632badd271b76c8ae64247791

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