Debian 3.0: DSA 599-1 Critical: tetex-bin Remote Code Execution

Chris Evans discovered several integer overflows in xpdf, that are
also present in tetex-bin, binary files for the teTeX distribution,
which can be exploited remotely by a specially crafted PDF document
and lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 20011202-7.3.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 2.0.2-23.

We recommend that you upgrade your tetex-bin packages.


Upgrade Instructions
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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
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