Bug#322458: CAN-2005-2097: DoS vulnerability through PDFs with crafted loca tables

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

Package: kpdf
Severity: important
Tags: security patch

A DoS vulnerability has been found in xpdf that affects the kpdf
of the soon to be uploaded 3.4.1 packages:

| kpdf, the KDE pdf viewer, shares code with xpdf. xpdf contains
| a vulnerability that causes it to write a file in $TMPDIR with
| almost infinite size, which can severly impact system performance.

Please see this URL for details and a patch:
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050809-1.txt

Cheers,
        Moritz

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-rc5
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO-8859-15@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)