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CVE-2009-0791

Published: 9 June 2009

Multiple integer overflows in Xpdf 2.x and 3.x and Poppler 0.x, as used in the pdftops filter in CUPS 1.1.17, 1.1.22, and 1.3.7, GPdf, and kdegraphics KPDF, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, possibly related to (1) Decrypt.cxx, (2) FoFiTrueType.cxx, (3) gmem.c, (4) JBIG2Stream.cxx, and (5) PSOutputDev.cxx in pdftops/. NOTE: the JBIG2Stream.cxx vector may overlap CVE-2009-1179.

Notes

AuthorNote
mdeslaur
we use the system pdftops, so we're not affected

Priority

Medium

Status

Package Release Status
cups
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
dapper Does not exist

hardy Does not exist

intrepid Not vulnerable

jaunty Not vulnerable

upstream Needs triage

cupsys
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
dapper Not vulnerable

hardy Not vulnerable

intrepid Does not exist

jaunty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage