CVE-2006-0301

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2006-01-05
Bugzilla:
1617882: CVE-2006-0301 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Heap-based buffer overflow in Splash.cc in xpdf, as used in other products such as (1) poppler, (2) kdegraphics, (3) gpdf, (4) pdfkit.framework, and others, allows attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted splash images that produce certain values that exceed the width or height of the associated bitmap.

Find out more about CVE-2006-0301 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (kdegraphics) RHSA-2006:0206 2006-02-13
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (xpdf) RHSA-2006:0201 2006-02-13

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Dirk Mueller for reporting this issue and providing a patch.

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