Two vulnerabilities have been identified in Xpdf, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or compromise an affected system. These issues are caused by an integer overflow error in the "StreamPredictor::StreamPredictor()" [xpdf/Stream.cc] function and a stack overflow error in the "StreamPredictor::getNextLine()" [xpdf/Stream.cc] function when processing malformed data, which could be exploited by attackers to crash a vulnerable application or execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted PDF file.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Maurycy Prodeus (iSEC).
ChangeLog
2007-07-31 : Initial release
2007-09-20 : Updated References
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