Debian: xpdf 0.90-7 Moderate: Unsafe Temp Files And Command Execution

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

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

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