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Debian Security Advisory                             security@debian.org 
Debian -- Security Information                          Wichert Akkerman
September 10, 2000
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Package        : xpdf
Problem type   : local exploit
Debian-specific: no

xpdf as distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 suffered from two problems:
1. creation of temporary files was not done safely which made xpdf
vulnerable to a symlink attack.
2. when handling URLs in documents no checking was done for shell
metacharacters before starting the browser. This makes it possible
to construct a document which cause xpdf to run arbitrary commands
when the user views an URL.

Both problems have been fixed in version 0.90-7, and we recommend you
upgrade your xpdf package immediately.

wget url
        will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
        will install the referenced file.


Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
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  Potato was released for the alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc
  architectures. At this moment no fixed package is available for arm
  machines.

  Source archives:
      
      MD5 checksum: e9b2584ea9dda178ed1a63771aa7019f
      
      MD5 checksum: 332ca1d9970dda5808538793bd3e346d
      
      MD5 checksum: a7678b64713a466279b61c28ba01134b

  Alpha architecture:
      
      MD5 checksum: cb4cf0761c5b5ae53c5fdbc84ef2b76d

  Intel ia32 architecture:
      
      MD5 checksum: 9c8379176a3af032d1e6ec96e084c0d4

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:
      
      MD5 checksum: 9a1d4b46ef498bee595a028d96ff6ba4

  PowerPC architecture:
      
      MD5 checksum: 489a06b7961873c2482e28108133d065

  Sun Sparc architecture:
      
      MD5 checksum: 46d1781a7d21f8ffb02137ebf22f20de

  These files will be moved into
     soon.

For not yet released architectures please refer to the appropriate
directory    .

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