CVE-2005-2097 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2005-2097 at MITRE

Description

xpdf and kpdf do not properly validate the "loca" table in PDF files, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption and hang) via a PDF file with a "broken" loca table, which causes a large temporary file to be created when xpdf attempts to reconstruct the information.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently not rated by SUSE as it is not affecting the SUSE Enterprise products.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	2.1
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 96561 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2005:019, published Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 01:34:09 2013
CVE page last modified: Tue Dec 19 11:09:33 2023