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Slackware: 2006-045-04 Critical: KPDF Buffer Overflow Security Fix

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Calendar Grey February 15, 2006
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Kdegraphics security patch released for Slackware addressing severe vulnerabilities found in kpdf application.
New kdegraphics packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and -current to fix security issues with kpdf

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 10.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/kdegraphics-3.4.2-i486-2.tgz: Patched integer and heap overflows in kpdf to fix possible security bugs with malformed PDF files. For more information, see: https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20051207-2.txt https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20060202-1.txt https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-3191 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-3192 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-3193 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-3624 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-3625 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-3626 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-3627 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-3628 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-0301 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow critical software update slackware kdegraphics kpdf

Where Find New Packages

Updated package for Slackware 10.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.0/patches/packages/kdegraphics-3.2.3-i486-2.tgz
Updated package for Slackware 10.1:
Updated package for Slackware 10.2:
Updated package for Slackware -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 10.0 package: da13535a269210c3e8aff65ef17e2442 kdegraphics-3.2.3-i486-2.tgz
Slackware 10.1 package: 1499ba1755da9e69a6b69031b2919eb2 kdegraphics-3.3.2-i486-4.tgz
Slackware 10.2 package: 5bb6d9647f5d48d00cbd698e9aa5821e kdegraphics-3.4.2-i486-2.tgz
Slackware -current package: a3dc06eee3e19500f39ee1ecbac977e1 kdegraphics-3.5.1-i486-1.tgz

Severity
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Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow critical software update slackware kdegraphics kpdf

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg kdegraphics-3.4.2-i486-2.tgz

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