Package : libextractor Vulnerability : several Problem type : local (remote) Debian-specific: no
Derek Noonburg has fixed several potential vulnerabilities in xpdf, which are also present in libextractor, a library to extract arbitrary meta-data from files.
The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain libextractor packages.
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.4.2-2sarge3.
For the unstable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.5.10-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your libextractor package.
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 - --------------------------------