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Debian Security Advisory 937-1: Critical Buffer Overflow in tetex-bin

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Calendar Grey January 27, 2006
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Remediation for buffer overflow vulnerabilities in tetex-bin packages aids in mitigating unauthorized code execution risks in Debian environments.
"infamous41md" and Chris Evans discovered several heap based buffer overflows in xpdf, the Portable Document Format (PDF) suite, which is also present in tetex-bin, the binary fi...

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 2.0.2-30sarge4.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.4.3-2 of poppler against which tetex-bin links.

We recommend that you upgrade your tetex-bin 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: 874 4fe4cb1a4bb2d39afc7f92948bafe6af
Size/MD5 checksum: 10328904 be3ba73c70f6c50637069868c56a7d9e

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 84666 14987fa20077b5ce0a10...

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