Debian 3.1 Sarge DSA 1008-1 Critical: Kpdf Buffer Overflow Risk
debian
March 17, 2006
Marcelo Ricardo Leitner noticed that the current patch in DSA 932
(CVE-2005-3627) for kpdf, the PDF viewer for KDE, does not fix all
buffer overflows, still allowing an attacker ...
Summary
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.3.2-2sarge4.
The unstable distribution (sid) is not affected by this problem.
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: 1319 43ac45170bb03f24c1be932f3beec501
Size/MD5 checksum: 159241 9d94b3cba4d2d2fb5b214ff5b5474571
Size/MD5 checksum: 7661488 6d0bb2c6e2e2f666d123778fbc520317
Architecture independent components:
Size/MD5 checksum: 17692 1fd8...
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