Debian: DSA 950-1 Critical: CUPS Buffer Overflow Threat Advisory
debian
January 27, 2006
"infamous41md" and Chris Evans discovered several heap based buffer
overflows in xpdf which are also present in CUPS, the Common UNIX
Printing System, and which can lead to a den...
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Summary
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.1.23-10sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your CUPS 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
Size/MD5 checksum: 712 87055bd9647d440b8ce56afc1c53c062
Size/MD5 checksum: 41961 2d996ab8926c30dda9b4b1da5db2dcf5
Size/MD5 checksum: 6150756 0dfa41f29fa73e7744903b2471d2ca2f
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 1901460 d9c2716ed...
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