Debian: DSA 1019-1 Important: Kpdf Local Security Risks and Fixes
debian
March 24, 2006
Derek Noonburg has fixed several potential vulnerabilities in xpdf,
the Portable Document Format (PDF) suite, which is also present in
koffice, the KDE Office Suite.
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Summary
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.3.5-4.sarge.3.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon.
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: 975 5968b7cf5d069e98ba8fe6512b6f656c
Size/MD5 checksum: 21789 52604c90cca5685c2cecba3e418066d1
Size/MD5 checksum: 13154501 2c9b45ecbf16a8c5d16ce9d2f51c2571
Architecture independent components:
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