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SUSE-SA:2006:001: xpdf,kpdf,gpdf,kword

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SUSE-SA:2006:001: xpdf,kpdf,gpdf,kword

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
01/11/2006
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/16/2006
Modified
11/18/2015

Description

Xpdf, as used in products such as gpdf, kpdf, pdftohtml, poppler, teTeX, CUPS, libextractor, and others, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via streams that end prematurely, as demonstrated using the (1) CCITTFaxDecode and (2) DCTDecode streams, aka "Infinite CPU spins."

Solution(s)

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