Package : kdegraphics Vulnerability : wrong input sanitising Problem-Type : local (remote) Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-2097
A bug has been discovered in the font handling code in xpdf, which is also present in kpdf, the PDF viewer for KDE. A specially crafted PDF file could cause infinite resource consumption, in terms of both CPU and disk space.
The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 3.3.2-2sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed as soon as the necessary libraries have made their C++ ABI transition.
We recommend that you upgrade your kpdf 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 --------------------------------