CVE-2005-3625
Description
From CVE.org
Xpdf, as used in products such as gpdf, kpdf, pdftohtml, poppler, teTeX, CUPS, libextractor, and others, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via streams that end prematurely, as demonstrated using the (1) CCITTFaxDecode and (2) DCTDecode streams, aka "Infinite CPU spins."
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 Chris Evans for reporting this issue.
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