CVE-2005-3191
Description
From CVE.org
Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the (1) DCTStream::readProgressiveSOF and (2) DCTStream::readBaselineSOF functions in the DCT stream parsing code (Stream.cc) in xpdf 3.01 and earlier, as used in products such as (a) Poppler, (b) teTeX, (c) KDE kpdf, (d) pdftohtml, (e) KOffice KWord, (f) CUPS, and (g) libextractor allow user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (heap corruption) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file with an out-of-range number of components (numComps), which is used as an array index.
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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