Bug#322467: Please Help (was: Bug#322467: [CAN-2005-2097] Loca Table Verification Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability)

2005-08-14 Thread Derek B. Noonburg
On 12 Aug, Martin Schröder wrote: > On 2005-08-12 16:08:07 +0200, Martin Schroeder wrote: >> I don't know about 2005-2097, but the worst would be a crash of >> pdfTeX. Is a patch around? > > I've found it and checked the code: The vulnerable code > (fofi/FoFiTrueType.cc) is only called from the in

Bug#322467: Please Help

2005-08-13 Thread Frank Küster
Martin Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2005-08-12 13:36:32 +0200, Thomas Esser wrote: >> > Now I'm wondering which changes you have made to the upstream sources, >> > and whether they were on purpose; and whether this makes teTeX >> > non-vulnerable, or requires a different patch to fix

Bug#322467: Please Help (was: Bug#322467: [CAN-2005-2097] Loca Table Verification Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability)

2005-08-12 Thread Martin Schröder
On 2005-08-12 16:08:07 +0200, Martin Schroeder wrote: > I don't know about 2005-2097, but the worst would be a crash of > pdfTeX. Is a patch around? I've found it and checked the code: The vulnerable code (fofi/FoFiTrueType.cc) is only called from the interactive code (xpdf/PShOutputDev.cc and xpd

Bug#322467: Please Help (was: Bug#322467: [CAN-2005-2097] Loca Table Verification Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability)

2005-08-12 Thread Martin Schroeder
On 2005-08-12 13:36:32 +0200, Thomas Esser wrote: > > Now I'm wondering which changes you have made to the upstream sources, > > and whether they were on purpose; and whether this makes teTeX > > non-vulnerable, or requires a different patch to fix the vulnerability. > > For the reasons given abov

Bug#322467: Please Help (was: Bug#322467: [CAN-2005-2097] Loca Table Verification Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability)

2005-08-12 Thread Thomas Esser
> This is why I'm contacting you, Thomas: Although according to the > CHANGES file we should have xpdf-3.00 just as the xpdf package has, but > at least one file (which should be patched) is missing in the teTeX > sources. The following changes are done to the original sources: - xpdf/GlobalPara

Bug#322467: Please Help (was: Bug#322467: [CAN-2005-2097] Loca Table Verification Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability)

2005-08-12 Thread Frank Küster
Hello Thomas, hello Debian Security team, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > tetex-bin_3.0 in experimental is vulnerable. This is about CAN-2005-2097, see http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14529/info. The provided patch (see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=322467) is said