CVE-2005-3627
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Description
Stream.cc in Xpdf, as used in products such as gpdf, kpdf, pdftohtml, poppler, teTeX, CUPS, libextractor, and others, allows attackers to modify memory and possibly execute arbitrary code via a DCTDecode stream with (1) a large "number of components" value that is not checked by DCTStream::readBaselineSOF or DCTStream::readProgressiveSOF, (2) a large "Huffman table index" value that is not checked by DCTStream::readHuffmanTables, and (3) certain uses of the scanInfo.numComps value by DCTStream::readScanInfo.
Remediation
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Patch and advisory references
- ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2006.15/SCOSA-2006.15.txt
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20051201-01-U
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060101-01-U
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060201-01-U
- http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Jan/0001.html
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