news 28 Posted October 15, 2009 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Important: xpdf security update Advisory ID: RHSA-2009:1501-01 Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1501.html Issue date: 2009-10-15 CVE Names: CVE-2009-0791 CVE-2009-1188 CVE-2009-3604 CVE-2009-3606 CVE-2009-3608 CVE-2009-3609 ===================================================================== 1. Summary: An updated xpdf package that fixes multiple security issues 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: Xpdf is an X Window System based viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Multiple integer overflow flaws were found in Xpdf. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause Xpdf to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code when opened. (CVE-2009-0791, CVE-2009-1188, CVE-2009-3604, CVE-2009-3606, CVE-2009-3608, CVE-2009-3609) Red Hat would like to thank Adam Zabrocki for reporting the CVE-2009-3604 issue, and Chris Rohlf for reporting the CVE-2009-3608 issue. Users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch to correct these issues. 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/): 491840 - CVE-2009-0791 xpdf: multiple integer overflows 495907 - CVE-2009-1188 xpdf/poppler: SplashBitmap integer overflow 526637 - CVE-2009-3608 xpdf/poppler: integer overflow in ObjectStream::ObjectStream (oCERT-2009-016) 526877 - CVE-2009-3606 xpdf/poppler: PSOutputDev::doImageL1Sep integer overflow 526893 - CVE-2009-3609 xpdf/poppler: ImageStream::ImageStream integer overflow 526911 - CVE-2009-3604 xpdf/poppler: Splash::drawImage integer overflow and missing allocation return value check 6. Package List: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4: Source: ftp://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/4AS/en/os/SRPMS/xpdf-3.00-22.el4_8.1.src.rpm i386: xpdf-3.00-22.el4_8.1.i386.rpm xpdf-debuginfo-3.00-22.el4_8.1.i386.rpm ia64: xpdf-3.00-22.el4_8.1.ia64.rpm xpdf-debuginfo-3.00-22.el4_8.1.ia64.rpm ppc: xpdf-3.00-22.el4_8.1.ppc.rpm xpdf-debuginfo-3.00-22.el4_8.1.ppc.rpm s390: xpdf-3.00-22.el4_8.1.s390.rpm xpdf-debuginfo-3.00-22.el4_8.1.s390.rpm s390x: xpdf-3.00-22.el4_8.1.s390x.rpm xpdf-debuginfo-3.00-22.el4_8.1.s390x.rpm x86_64: xpdf-3.00-22.el4_8.1.x86_64.rpm xpdf-debuginfo-3.00-22.el4_8.1.x86_64.rpm Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4: Source: ftp://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/4Desktop/en/os/SRPMS/xpdf-3.00-22.el4_8.1.src.rpm i386: xpdf-3.00-22.el4_8.1.i386.rpm xpdf-debuginfo-3.00-22.el4_8.1.i386.rpm x86_64: xpdf-3.00-22.el4_8.1.x86_64.rpm xpdf-debuginfo-3.00-22.el4_8.1.x86_64.rpm Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4: Source: ftp://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/4ES/en/os/SRPMS/xpdf-3.00-22.el4_8.1.src.rpm i386: xpdf-3.00-22.el4_8.1.i386.rpm xpdf-debuginfo-3.00-22.el4_8.1.i386.rpm ia64: xpdf-3.00-22.el4_8.1.ia64.rpm xpdf-debuginfo-3.00-22.el4_8.1.ia64.rpm x86_64: xpdf-3.00-22.el4_8.1.x86_64.rpm xpdf-debuginfo-3.00-22.el4_8.1.x86_64.rpm Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4: Source: ftp://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/4WS/en/os/SRPMS/xpdf-3.00-22.el4_8.1.src.rpm i386: xpdf-3.00-22.el4_8.1.i386.rpm xpdf-debuginfo-3.00-22.el4_8.1.i386.rpm ia64: xpdf-3.00-22.el4_8.1.ia64.rpm xpdf-debuginfo-3.00-22.el4_8.1.ia64.rpm x86_64: xpdf-3.00-22.el4_8.1.x86_64.rpm xpdf-debuginfo-3.00-22.el4_8.1.x86_64.rpm These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://www.redhat.com/security/team/key/#package 7. References: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0791 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1188 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3604 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3606 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3608 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3609 http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important 8. Contact: The Red Hat security contact is . More contact details at https://www.redhat.com/security/team/contact/ Copyright 2009 Red Hat, Inc. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFK1utSXlSAg2UNWIIRAoPrAJwPGK+9IKlrd5flbF0jPPPXL4Zg6gCgo0A5 DUJDGG0gkf6sIWMNqF0XVoY= =3wX3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Share this post Link to post