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KDE and KOffice PDF Invalid Tree Node Denial of Service Weakness
Secunia Advisory:	SA23799	Advisory Toolbox: Issue ticket Save in to-do list Mark as handled Exploit information Download as PDF Review actions Add comment
Release Date:	2007-01-17
Popularity:	8,455 views

Critical:	Not critical
Impact:	DoS
Where:	From remote
Solution Status:	Vendor Patch

Software:	KDE 3.x KOffice 1.x

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CVE reference:	CVE-2007-0104

Description: A weakness has been reported in KDE and KOffice, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). The weakness is caused due to an error within the handling of catalog dictionaries or page attributes that reference an invalid page treenode. This can be exploited to cause an infinite loop by e.g. tricking a user into opening a specially crafted PDF document. The weakness is reported in KDE 3.2.0 through KDE 3.5.5 and KOffice 1.2 and newer. Solution: Apply patches. Patch for KOffice 1.2.1 and newer: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/koffce-xpdf-CVE-2007-0104.diff Patch for KDE 3.2.3 and newer: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_pa...-3.2.3-kdegraphics-CVE-2007-0104.diff ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_pa...-3.5.5-kdegraphics-CVE-2007-0104.diff Provided and/or discovered by: Reported by the vendor. Original Advisory: http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20070115-1.txt

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