Debian: DSA 931-1 Moderate: Xpdf Buffer Overflow DoS Risk and Mitigation
debian
January 27, 2006
"infamous41md" and Chris Evans discovered several heap based buffer
overflows in xpdf, the Portable Document Format (PDF) suite, that can
lead to a denial of service by crashing ...
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Summary
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 3.00-13.4.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 3.01-4.
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 f8091cb4e0b0c7baa8ccc4ee75a50699
Size/MD5 checksum: 11832 ab0665a0fa767785037ceff313cbc1b3
Size/MD5 checksum: 397750 81f3c381cef729e4b6f4ce21cf5bbf3c
Architecture independent components:
Size/MD5 che...
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