Debian 3.0 DSA-648-1 Critical: Xpdf Buffer Overflow Threat
debian
January 19, 2005
iDEFENSE has reported a buffer overflow in xpdf, the portable document
format (PDF) suite
Topics Covered
Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.00-12.
We recommend that you upgrade your xpdf 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: 706 635d7c4eae9655d8a3377d8eed6cb2d1
Size/MD5 checksum: 10726 0267c0fd7ffecd48dd888e170953a480
Size/MD5 checksum: 397750 81f3c381cef729e4b6f4ce21cf5bbf3c
Architecture independent components:
Size/MD5 checksum: 38654 d163325cae5a83d1f9ef2022242c731d
Size/MD5 checksum: 1286 14b90...
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