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Debian: DSA 792-1 Critical: Pstotext Command Execution Issue

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Calendar Grey August 31, 2005
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The Freetype library addresses a vulnerability related to improper memory management that could lead to denial of service in various applications.
Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.9-1sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.9-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your pstotext 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 3.0 alias woody

Size/MD5 checksum: 569 5e4999fac3cb50533b8fa55fa9b8d839
Size/MD5 checksum: 5551 e8656ca1e70907515dea96f646defbeb
Size/MD5 checksum: 36193 dfabf95fffea52cc03d8728617ca1b1e

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 33478 dc...

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