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Debian 3.0: DSA 192-2 Critical Vulnerability in html2ps Code Exec

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Calendar Grey December 6, 2002
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Rectification introduced to mitigate the potential code execution risk in html2ps. This modification addresses a syntactical error traced back to DSA 192-1 issued on December 6, 2002.
The security update from DSA 192-1 contained a syntax error which is now fixed.

Summary

The security update from DSA 192-1 contained a syntax error which is
now fixed. For completeness we include the text of the old advisory:

The SuSE Security Team found a vulnerability in html2ps, a HTML to
PostScript converter, that opened files based on unsanitized input
insecurely. This problem can be exploited when html2ps is
installed as filter within lrpng and the attacker has previously
gained access to the lp account.

This problem has been fixed in version 1.0b3-1.2 for the current
stable distribution (woody), in version 1.0b1-8.2 for the old stable
distribution (potato) and in version 1.0b3-3 for the unstable
distribution (sid).

We recommend that you upgrade your html2ps package.

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

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Package: html2ps

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