Executive Summary

Summary
Title gpdf security update
Informations
Name RHSA-2009:1681 First vendor Publication 2009-12-16
Vendor RedHat Last vendor Modification 2009-12-16
Severity (Vendor) Important Revision 01

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 9.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Problem Description:

An updated gpdf package that fixes a security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 - i386, ia64, ppc, s390, s390x, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 - i386, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 - i386, ia64, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 - i386, ia64, x86_64

3. Description:

GPdf is a viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files.

Petr Gajdos and Christian Kornacker of SUSE reported a buffer overflow flaw in GPdf's Type 1 font parser. A specially-crafted PDF file with an embedded Type 1 font could cause GPdf to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code when opened. (CVE-2009-4035)

Users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch to correct this issue.

4. Solution:

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

5. Bugs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

541614 - CVE-2009-4035 xpdf: buffer overflow in FoFiType1::parse

Original Source

Url : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1681.html

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-94 Failure to Control Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10996
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10996
Title: The FoFiType1::parse function in fofi/FoFiType1.cc in Xpdf 3.0.0, gpdf 2.8.2, kpdf in kdegraphics 3.3.1, and possibly other libraries and versions, does not check the return value of the getNextLine function, which allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PDF file with a crafted Type 1 font that can produce a negative value, leading to a signed-to-unsigned integer conversion error and a buffer overflow.
Description: The FoFiType1::parse function in fofi/FoFiType1.cc in Xpdf 3.0.0, gpdf 2.8.2, kpdf in kdegraphics 3.3.1, and possibly other libraries and versions, does not check the return value of the getNextLine function, which allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PDF file with a crafted Type 1 font that can produce a negative value, leading to a signed-to-unsigned integer conversion error and a buffer overflow.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2009-4035
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
CentOS Linux 4
Oracle Linux 4
 Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Application 1
Application 1
Application 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2011-08-09 Name : CentOS Update for xpdf CESA-2009:1680 centos4 i386
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2009_1680_xpdf_centos4_i386.nasl
2011-08-09 Name : CentOS Update for gpdf CESA-2009:1681 centos4 i386
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2009_1681_gpdf_centos4_i386.nasl
2011-08-09 Name : CentOS Update for kdegraphics CESA-2009:1682 centos4 i386
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2009_1682_kdegraphics_centos4_i386.nasl
2009-12-30 Name : RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:1680
File : nvt/RHSA_2009_1680.nasl
2009-12-30 Name : RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:1681
File : nvt/RHSA_2009_1681.nasl
2009-12-30 Name : RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:1682
File : nvt/RHSA_2009_1682.nasl
2009-12-30 Name : CentOS Security Advisory CESA-2009:1680 (xpdf)
File : nvt/ovcesa2009_1680.nasl
2009-12-30 Name : CentOS Security Advisory CESA-2009:1681 (gpdf)
File : nvt/ovcesa2009_1681.nasl
2009-12-30 Name : CentOS Security Advisory CESA-2009:1682 (kdegraphics)
File : nvt/ovcesa2009_1682.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
61207 KDE KPDF xpdf/fofi/FoFiType1.cc FoFiType1::parse() Function Overflow

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-02-18 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201402-17.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2009-1680.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2009-1681.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2009-1682.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-01 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20091216_kdegraphics_on_SL4_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-01 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing a security update.
File : sl_20091216_xpdf_on_SL4_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-01 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing a security update.
File : sl_20091216_gpdf_on_SL4_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-10-11 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_poppler-6743.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-01-12 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_2_libpoppler-devel-100111.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-01-03 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_0_libpoppler-devel-091223.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-01-03 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_1_libpoppler-devel-091222.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-01-03 Name : The remote SuSE system is missing a security patch for libpoppler-devel
File : suse_11_2_libpoppler-devel-091222.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-01-03 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_11_libpoppler-devel-091221.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-01-03 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_poppler-6751.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-12-21 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.
File : centos_RHSA-2009-1680.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-12-21 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2009-1682.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-12-21 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.
File : centos_RHSA-2009-1681.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-12-17 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.
File : redhat-RHSA-2009-1681.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-12-17 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2009-1682.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-12-17 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.
File : redhat-RHSA-2009-1680.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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