Debian: DSA 619-1 Urgent: xpdf Vulnerability Allows Remote Code Execution
debian
December 30, 2004
An iDEFENSE security researcher discovered 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 3.00-11.
We recommend that you upgrade your xdpf package immediately.
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
-------------------------------- Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 706 23700a27ce16f5eb689c506202d2765b
Size/MD5 checksum: 10380 e2848faffb3f2e31dd5537455e7080da
Size/MD5 checksum: 397750 81f3c381cef729e4b6f4ce21cf5bbf3c
Architecture independent components:
Size/MD5 checksum: 38564 3569649f5201386...
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------Package: xpdf
CVE ID: CAN-2004-1125
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