CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
28.4%
A bug has been discovered in the font handling code in xpdf, which is also present in kpdf, the PDF viewer for KDE. A specially crafted PDF file could cause infinite resource consumption, in terms of both CPU and disk space.
The oldstable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-780. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(19477);
script_version("1.17");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");
script_cve_id("CVE-2005-2097");
script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"780");
script_name(english:"Debian DSA-780-1 : kdegraphics - wrong input sanitising");
script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"A bug has been discovered in the font handling code in xpdf, which is
also present in kpdf, the PDF viewer for KDE. A specially crafted PDF
file could cause infinite resource consumption, in terms of both CPU
and disk space.
The oldstable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-780"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"Upgrade the kpdf package.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.3.2-2sarge1."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:kdegraphics");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2005/08/22");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2005/08/23");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2005/08/09");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"kamera", reference:"3.3.2-2sarge1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"kcoloredit", reference:"3.3.2-2sarge1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"kdegraphics", reference:"3.3.2-2sarge1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"kdegraphics-dev", reference:"3.3.2-2sarge1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"kdegraphics-kfile-plugins", reference:"3.3.2-2sarge1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"kdvi", reference:"3.3.2-2sarge1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"kfax", reference:"3.3.2-2sarge1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"kgamma", reference:"3.3.2-2sarge1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"kghostview", reference:"3.3.2-2sarge1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"kiconedit", reference:"3.3.2-2sarge1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"kmrml", reference:"3.3.2-2sarge1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"kolourpaint", reference:"3.3.2-2sarge1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"kooka", reference:"3.3.2-2sarge1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"kpdf", reference:"3.3.2-2sarge1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"kpovmodeler", reference:"3.3.2-2sarge1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"kruler", reference:"3.3.2-2sarge1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"ksnapshot", reference:"3.3.2-2sarge1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"ksvg", reference:"3.3.2-2sarge1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"kuickshow", reference:"3.3.2-2sarge1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"kview", reference:"3.3.2-2sarge1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"kviewshell", reference:"3.3.2-2sarge1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"libkscan-dev", reference:"3.3.2-2sarge1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"libkscan1", reference:"3.3.2-2sarge1")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_note(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
else security_note(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");