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Debian: DSA 1243-1 Moderate: Evince Buffer Overflow Execution Threat

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Calendar Grey December 27, 2006
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Security Notice DSA 1243-1 highlights a critical buffer overflow vulnerability within evince software on Debian systems. Users are advised to perform an update promptly to mitigate risks.
Updated package.

Summary


For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) this problem has been
fixed in version 0.4.0-3.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.4.0-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your evince package.


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 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 1627 82308e07e1d4ff19d5c20bfa08a2ca4d
Size/MD5 checksum: 35845 31a28bde68dcb7d3e251f9dc1b9f88ab
Size/MD5 checksum: 1005696 cc698ae555493976c43275894e235aa3

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 61580...

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