CVE-2005-2097 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2005-2097 at MITRE

Description

xpdf and kpdf do not properly validate the "loca" table in PDF files, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption and hang) via a PDF file with a "broken" loca table, which causes a large temporary file to be created when xpdf attempts to reconstruct the information.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently not rated by SUSE as it is not affecting the SUSE Enterprise products.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	2.1
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 96561 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2005:019, published Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 01:34:09 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:14:40 2025