Debian 3.1 DSA 938-1 Critical: Koffice Buffer Overflow Remote Threat
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 koffice, the KDE Office ...
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Summary
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.3.5-4.sarge.2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.4.2-6.
We recommend that you upgrade your koffice 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: 975 ef074154b4cd7e051accef81a1863e7f
Size/MD5 checksum: 21184 5acfea3a4fd7bb6ae0fa62eb6b5d5fcc
Size/MD5 checksum: 13154501 2c9b45ecbf16a8c5d16ce9d2f51c2571
Architecture independent components:
Si...
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