Debian 3.1 DSA-936-1 Critical: Libextractor Buffer Overflow Advisory
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 libextractor, a librar...
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Summary
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.4.2-2sarge2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.5.8-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your libextractor packages.
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: 778 6906857074772199e2a8a892feb3aae2
Size/MD5 checksum: 6345 c214699bde0bfad501cede35488b4f09
Size/MD5 checksum: 5887095 d99e1b13a017d39700e376a0edbf7ba2
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checks...
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