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Debian 3.1: DSA 971-1 Moderate: xpdf Buffer Overflow DoS

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Calendar Grey February 14, 2006
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Security vulnerability addressed in xpdf packages for Debian. Update guidelines provided for users.
Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 3.00-13.5.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 3.01-6.

We recommend that you upgrade your xpdf packages.


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: 781 7ce45eb5717a12dc1d0bf61e24481486
Size/MD5 checksum: 50970 a6099c15a50cca42122437ab563d940e
Size/MD5 checksum: 534697 95294cef3031dd68e65f331e8750b2c2

Architecture independent components:

Size/MD5 ch...

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