Debian 3.0: DSA 621-1 Critical: CUPS Remote Execution Risk from PDF
debian
December 31, 2004
An iDEFENSE security researcher discovered a buffer overflow in xpdf, the Portable Document Format (PDF) suite
Topics Covered
Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.1.22-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your cupsys packages.
Upgrade Instructions
--------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
-------------------------------- Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 712 36c1ad1b8e3ca13ce224dcd02af6c457
Size/MD5 checksum: 40453 572e74a87693b9a0d5d25fdca857421d
Size/MD5 checksum: 6150756 0dfa41f29fa73e7744903b2471d2ca2f
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 1900962 ae4ead9371d72d9675220ea8bf6dde5a
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------Package: cupsys
CVE ID: CAN-2004-1125
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