Debian 3.1 DSA-932-1 Critical: KPDF Buffer Overflow Impacting Users
debian
January 27, 2006
"infamous41md" and Chris Evans discovered several heap based buffer
overflows in xpdf, the Portable Document Format (PDF) suite, that can
lead to a denial of service by crashing ...
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Summary
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 3.3.2-2sarge3.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 3.5.0-3.
We recommend that you upgrade your kpdf 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: 1317 883261a391a85afb038bb7ea2150ecd7
Size/MD5 checksum: 159106 1169ddf001b77319f2859c87ce482bc4
Size/MD5 checksum: 7661488 6d0bb2c6e2e2f666d123778fbc520317
Architecture independent components:
Size/MD...
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