Debian: DSA 940-1 Critical Update For gpdf Buffer Overflow Exploit
debian
January 27, 2006
"infamous41md" and Chris Evans discovered several heap based buffer
overflows in xpdf, the Portable Document Format (PDF) suite, which is
also present in gpdf, the GNOME version ...
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Summary
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 2.8.2-1.2sarge2
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your gpdf 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: 1663 9e806f6e5ea32832199a8c5bf779266b
Size/MD5 checksum: 35176 0e59e244b5e3a574dbba224b7e5e1ed0
Size/MD5 checksum: 1245535 5ceb66aa95e51c4e1d6e10cb29560ff9
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 867712 45327b4e841...
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