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TITLE:
KDE kpdf Temporary File Writing Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA16294

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/16294/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
KDE 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/219/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in KDE, which can be exploited by
malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) on a user's
system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in kpdf when creating
temporary files. This can be exploited to cause kpdf to create an
overly large temporary file when a specially crafted PDF document is
opened.

Successful exploitation may cause all available disk space to be
exhausted.

The vulnerability affects versions 3.3.1 through 3.4.1.

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.

Patch for KDE 3.3.1:
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/post-3.3.1-kdegraphics-4.diff
fc6fc7fa6886d6ff19037e7547846990

Patch for KDE 3.4.1:
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/post-3.4.1-kdegraphics-4.diff
fc6fc7fa6886d6ff19037e7547846990

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
KDE.org:
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050809-1.txt

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