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Debian 8 Jessie DLA-2134-1 Critical: Pdfresurrect Out-Of-Bounds Issue

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Calendar Grey March 5, 2020
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An overflow vulnerability in pdfresurrect has been addressed in release 0.12-5+deb8u1 for Debian 8. Update your system promptly.
It was discovered that there was an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in pdfresurrect, a tool for extracting or scrubbing versioning data from PDF documents
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Summary

We recommend that you upgrade your pdfresurrect packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS


Regards,

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Package: pdfresurrect
Version: 0.12-5+deb8u1
CVE ID: CVE-2020-9549
Debian Bug: #952948

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