Multiple Security Vulnerabilities in the Solaris GNOME PDF Rendering Libraries May Lead to a Denial of Service (DoS) or Execution of Arbitrary Code

Category
Security

Release Phase
Resolved

Bug Id
6904352

Product
Solaris 10 Operating System
OpenSolaris

Date of Workaround Release
10-Dec-2009

Date of Resolved Release
25-Feb-2010

Multiple Security Vulnerabilities in the Solaris GNOME PDF Rendering Libraries May Lead to a Denial of Service (DoS) or Execution of Arbitrary Code

1. Impact

Multiple integer overflow and improper memory allocation vulnerabilities have been identified in the Solaris GNOME PDF rendering libraries. These vulnerabilities may allow a local or remote unprivileged user to cause the Solaris GNOME PDF viewers (evince(1) for OpenSolaris and gpdf(1) for Solaris 10) which are linked to these libraries to crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) or arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running the application.

These issues are also referenced in the following documents:

CVE-2009-3603 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2009-3603
CVE-2009-3604 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2009-3604
CVE-2009-3605 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2009-3605
CVE-2009-3606 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2009-3606
CVE-2009-3607 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2009-3607
CVE-2009-3608 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2009-3608
CVE-2009-3609 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2009-3609

2. Contributing Factors

These issues can occur in the following releases:

SPARC Platform

Solaris 10 without patch 120739-06
OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_01 through snv_129

x86 Platform

Solaris 10 without patch 120740-06
OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_01 through snv_129

Notes:

1. Solaris 8 and 9 do not ship GNOME PDF Viewer and therefore are not affected by these issues.
2. Solaris 10 is only affected by CVE-2009-3605, CVE-2009-3606 and CVE-2009-3609 vulnerabilities.

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

If the described issues have been exploited to cause a Denial of Service (DoS), the application which makes use of the GNOME PDF rendering libraries will crash, potentially leaving a core file depending on the system configuration. There are no predictable symptoms that would indicate these issues have been exploited to execute arbitrary code.

4. Workaround

Until the resolution patches are available, it may be possible to work around the described issues by not opening untrusted PDF files with the GNOME PDF Viewer.

5. Resolution

These issues are addressed in the following releases:

SPARC Platform

Solaris 10 with patch 120739-06 or later
OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_130 or later

x86 Platform

Solaris 10 with patch 120740-06 or later
OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_130 or later

For more information on Security Sun Alerts, see 1009886.1.

Modification History
18-Feb-2010: Updated for pending patches
25-Feb-2010: Updated Contributing Factors and Resolution sections for patch release; now Resolved

References

120739-06
120740-06

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