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Article ID : 1021007.1
Article Type : Sun Alerts (SURE)
Last reviewed : 2009-10-12
Audience : PUBLIC
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Multiple Security Vulnerabilities in the JBIG2 Decoder in the OpenSolaris GNOME PDF Viewer may Lead to Execution of Arbitrary Code



Category
Security

Release Phase
Resolved

Bug Id
6827182

Product
OpenSolaris

Date of Resolved Release
13-Oct-2009

Multiple security vulnerabilities in the JBIG2 decoding feature:

1. Impact

Multiple security vulnerabilities in the JBIG2 decoding feature in the Poppler PDF Rendering Library (libpoppler) may allow a local or remote unprivileged user to cause the OpenSolaris GNOME PDF Viewer (Evince) to crash and potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application, when the user has loaded a specially crafted PDF file.

These issues are also referenced in the following documents:

CVE-2009-0165 at: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0165
CVE-2009-0146 at: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0146
CVE-2009-0147 at: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0147
CVE-2009-0166 at: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0166
CVE-2009-1187 at: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1187
CVE-2009-1188 at: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1188

Sun acknowledges with thanks, Braden Thomas and Drew Yao of Apple Product Security for bringing the issues described in CVE-2009-0165, CVE-2009-0146, CVE-2009-0147 and CVE-2009-0166 to our attention.

2. Contributing Factors

These issues can occur in the following releases:

SPARC Platform

  • OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_01 through snv_113
x86 Platform
  • OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_01 through snv_113
Note 1: Solaris 8, 9, and 10 are not affected by this issue.

Note 2 :  OpenSolaris distributions may include additional bug fixes above and beyond the build from which it was derived.  To determine the base build of OpenSolaris, the following command can be used:
    $ uname -v
snv_86
3. Symptoms

Should the described issues occur, evince(1) may crash and potentially create a core dump depending on the system configuration. There are no predictable symptoms to indicate that these issues have been exploited to execute arbitrary code.

4. Workaround

To workaround the described issues, do not load PDF files from untrusted sources.

5. Resolution

These issues are addressed in the following releases:

SPARC Platform
  • OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_114 or later
x86 Platform
  • OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_114 or later

For more information on Security Sun Alerts, see 1009886.1.

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