Package : xpdf Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem type : local (remote) Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-0301 Debian Bugs : 350783 350785
SuSE researchers discovered heap overflow errors in xpdf, the Portable Document Format (PDF) suite, that can allow attackers to cause a denial of service by crashing the application or possibly execute arbitrary code.
The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected.
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 3.00-13.5.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 3.01-6.
We recommend that you upgrade your xpdf packages.
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 3.1 alias sarge - --------------------------------