CVE-2005-3192

Publication date 8 December 2005

Last updated 17 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the StreamPredictor function in Xpdf 3.01, as used in products such as (1) Poppler, (2) teTeX, (3) KDE kpdf, and (4) pdftohtml, (5) KOffice KWord, (6) CUPS, and (7) libextractor allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PDF file with an out-of-range numComps (number of components) field.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
cupsys 7.04 feisty
Not affected
6.10 edgy
Not affected
6.06 LTS dapper
Not affected
gpdf 7.04 feisty Not in release
6.10 edgy
Fixed in 2.10.0-2
6.06 LTS dapper
Fixed in 2.10.0-2
kdegraphics 7.04 feisty
Fixed in 3.5.2-0ubuntu6
6.10 edgy
Fixed in 3.5.2-0ubuntu6
6.06 LTS dapper
Fixed in 3.5.2-0ubuntu6
koffice 7.04 feisty
Not affected
6.10 edgy
Not affected
6.06 LTS dapper
Not affected
poppler 7.04 feisty
Fixed in 0.5.4-0ubuntu8.1
6.10 edgy
Fixed in 0.5.4-0ubuntu4.2
6.06 LTS dapper
Fixed in 0.5.1-0ubuntu7.2
tetex-bin 7.04 feisty
Fixed in 3.0-13ubuntu6
6.10 edgy
Fixed in 3.0-13ubuntu6
6.06 LTS dapper
Fixed in 3.0-13ubuntu6

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-227-1
    • xpdf vulnerabilities
    • 12 December 2005

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