Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 727
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 727

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1: DSA 1136-1 Critical: gpdf Buffer Overflow

debian
Calendar Grey August 2, 2006
Debian Logo
Important security alert to all gpdf users: significant vulnerabilities have been discovered, raising risks for data integrity. Upgrade immediately to secure systems
"infamous41md" and Chris Evans discovered several heap based buffer overflows in xpdf, the Portable Document Format (PDF) suite, which are also present in gpdf, the viewer with Gtk...
Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service buffer overflow critical Debian upgrade gpdf

Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 2.10.0-4.

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 at the end of this advisory:

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 d7cd341afa44a55b1d6b6e177506df73
Size/MD5 checksum: 37001 4c0f08229d68b89376f1dafbd2785602
Size/MD5 checksum: 1245535 5ceb66aa95e51c4e1d6e10cb29560ff9

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 868192 a1165a52e231ad0d7288956259f6dac1

AMD64 architecture:

...

Read the Full Advisory

Severity
critical
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service buffer overflow critical Debian upgrade gpdf

Get the latest News and Insights

Get the latest Linux and open source security news straight to your inbox.

Your message here