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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.55057
Category:Fedora Local Security Checks
Title:Fedora Core 3 FEDORA-2005-730 (xpdf)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing an update to xpdf
announced via advisory FEDORA-2005-730.

Xpdf is an X Window System based viewer for Portable Document Format
(PDF) files. Xpdf is a small and efficient program which uses
standard X fonts.

Update Information:

A flaw was discovered in Xpdf in that an attacker could
construct a carefully crafted PDF file that would cause Xpdf
to consume all available disk space in /tmp when opened. The
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project assigned the name
CVE-2005-2097 to this issue.

Users of xpdf should upgrade to this updated package, which
contains a backported patch to resolve this issue.
* Wed Jul 27 2005 Than Ngo 1:3.00-10.6.FC3
- better patch to fix CVE-2005-2097, #163918

* Tue Jul 26 2005 Than Ngo 1:3.00-10.5.FC3
- backport patch to fix xpdf DoS, CVE-2005-2097, #163918
- fix xpdf crash #163807

Solution: Apply the appropriate updates.

This update can be downloaded from:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent
you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.

http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2005-730

Risk factor : Medium

CVSS Score:
2.1

Cross-Ref: BugTraq ID: 14529
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-2097
102972
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102972-1
14529
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14529
17277
http://secunia.com/advisories/17277
18398
http://secunia.com/advisories/18398
18407
http://secunia.com/advisories/18407
21339
http://secunia.com/advisories/21339
25729
http://secunia.com/advisories/25729
ADV-2007-2280
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2280
DSA-1136
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1136
DSA-780
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-780
DSA-936
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-936
FLSA-2006:176751
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427053/100/0/threaded
FLSA:175404
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427990/100/0/threaded
MDKSA-2005:138
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:138
RHSA-2005:670
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-670.html
RHSA-2005:671
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-671.html
RHSA-2005:706
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-706.html
RHSA-2005:708
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-708.html
SCOSA-2005.42
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2005.42/SCOSA-2005.42.txt
SUSE-SR:2005:019
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_19_sr.html
USN-163-1
https://usn.ubuntu.com/163-1/
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10280
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10280
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