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TITLE:
KDE Okular PDB Parsing RLE Decompression Buffer Overflow

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA40952

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RELEASE DATE:
2010-08-26

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DESCRIPTION:
Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in KDE Okular, which
can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a
user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the RLE
decompression in the "TranscribePalmImageToJPEG()" function in
generators/plucker/unpluck/image.cpp. This can be exploited to cause
a heap-based buffer overflow by e.g. tricking a user into opening a
specially crafted PDB file.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 4.4.5. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Apply patches. See vendor's advisory for additional details.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Stefan Cornelius, Secunia Research.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Secunia Research:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2010-109

KDE:
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20100825-1.txt

OTHER REFERENCES:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/

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EXTENDED SOLUTION:
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EXPLOIT:
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