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Sid
17361

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Summary:
This event is generated when an attempt is made to exploit a known vulnerability in xpdf.

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Impact:
Denial of Service. Information disclosure. Loss of integrity. 

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Detailed Information:
The Adobe PDF specification 1.3, as implemented by (a) xpdf 3.0.1 patch 2, (b) kpdf in KDE before 3.5.5, (c) poppler before 0.5.4, and other products, allows remote attackers to have an unknown impact, possibly including denial of service (infinite loop), arbitrary code execution, or memory corruption, via a PDF file with a (1) crafted catalog dictionary or (2) a crafted Pages attribute that references an invalid page tree node.

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Affected Systems:
xpdf xpdf 3.0
xpdf xpdf 3.0.1
xpdf xpdf 3.0.1 pl1
xpdf xpdf 3.0.1 pl2
xpdf xpdf 3.0 pl2

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Attack Scenarios:


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Ease of Attack:
Medium.

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False Positives:
None known.

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False Negatives:
None known.

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Corrective Action:
Upgrade to the latest non-affected version of the software.

Apply the appropriate vendor supplied patches.

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Contributors:
Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team
This document was generated from data supplied by the National Vulnerability Database. A product of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
For more information see http://nvd.nist.gov/

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Additional References:

NIST CVE-2007-0104:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2007-0104
  
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