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teTeX Xpdf Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA17916  
Release Date: 2005-12-07

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:teTeX 2.x
teTeX 3.x

CVE reference:CVE-2005-3191 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2005-3192 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2005-3193 (Secunia mirror)

This advisory is currently marked as unpatched!
- Companies can be alerted when a patch is released!


Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in teTeX, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to the use of a vulnerable version of Xpdf.

For more information:
SA17897

The vulnerabilities affect version 3.0. Prior versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Restrict use to PDF files from trusted sources only.

Original Advisory:
Debian:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=342292

Other References:
SA17897:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17897/



Please note: The information that this Secunia Advisory is based on comes from a third party unless stated otherwise.

Secunia collects, validates, and verifies all vulnerability reports issued by security research groups, vendors, and others.

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1. teTeX Multiple Vulnerabilities
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3. teTeX Xpdf Multiple Integer Overflow Vulnerabilities
4. teTeX Multiple Image Decoder Parsing Vulnerabilities
5. teTeX Multiple Vulnerabilities


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