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Bug#346086: tetex-bin: New integer overflows in xpdf copy [CVE-2005-3624, CVE-2005-3625, CVE-2005-3627]



Hi Hilmar!

Hilmar Preusse [2006-01-27  9:56 +0100]:
> > This is precisely the fix that is required to avoid endless loops
> > with prematurely ending PDF files (CVE-2005-3625). So it is not
> > exploitable to execute any code or something, but it's still a
> > nasty DoS, particularly in Cups. So I would prefer to apply it,
> > especially since it's such an easy and straightforward change.
> > 
> So, what is that now?
> 
> - a security leak, which must be fixed
> - rather an inconvenience, which should be fixed?

For CUPS it was a real DoS which must be fixed, but for tetex-bin it's
just an inconvenience; there will be few systems which automatically
process untrusted LaTeX documents with PDF files sent by remote
attackers.

> Does that bug deserve still the severity critical? If not I propose
> to lower the severity to important, keep that bug open until the
> support for oldstable has ended and close the bug then. For now I
> mark that bug as not found in 2.0.2-30sarge4 and found in
> 1.0.7+20011202-7.7 .

Works for me.

Thanks,

Martin
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