CVE-2005-3193
Description
From CVE.org
Heap-based buffer overflow in the JPXStream::readCodestream function in the JPX stream parsing code (JPXStream.c) for xpdf 3.01 and earlier, as used in products such as (1) Poppler, (2) teTeX, (3) KDE kpdf, (4) CUPS, and (5) libextractor allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (heap corruption) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file with large size values that cause insufficient memory to be allocated.
Statement
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.
Acknowledgements
Red Hat would like to thank Derek B. Noonburg for reporting this issue.
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