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Debian 3.1 DSA 962-1 Critical: Pdtohtml Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey February 1, 2006
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Ubuntu patch for pdftohtml resolves major security flaws and potential memory overflow issues. Update advised.
Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.36-11sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your pdftohtml 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: 602 c7095f7045d69bcebca90ade3f62a9a4
Size/MD5 checksum: 11388 17672ff97722b502d4d5b3ab804401e3
Size/MD5 checksum: 300922 75ad095bb51e1f66c9f7691e6af12f44

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 313926 ec897e4...

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