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kpdf -- heap based buffer overflow

Affected packages
		kdegraphics	<	3.5.1_1

Details

VuXML ID	432bf98d-9e25-11da-b410-000e0c2e438a
Discovery	2006-02-02
Entry	2006-02-15

The KDE team reports:

kpdf, the KDE pdf viewer, shares code with xpdf. xpdf contains a heap based buffer overflow in the splash rasterizer engine that can crash kpdf or even execute arbitrary code.

[source]

References

CVE Name	CVE-2006-0301
URL	http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20060202-1.txt