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Debian: DSA 1220-2 Critical: Pstotext Command Invocation Issue

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Calendar Grey November 26, 2006
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Important Debian Alert DSA 1220-2 identifies a vulnerability in pstotext allowing unauthorized command execution. Promptly update to safeguard your system.
Updated package.

Summary


For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) this problem has been
fixed in version 1.9-4.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.9-4.

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 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 566 56e79abcf02e841e78267bda1faff734
Size/MD5 checksum: 8857 4efb7277f17fca5ebd20573d93b11a83
Size/MD5 checksum: 37461 64576e8a10ff5514e285d98b3898ae78

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 34218 ...

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