Package : xpdf Vulnerability : buffer overflows Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE IDs : CAN-2005-3191 CAN-2005-3192 CAN-2005-3193 CVE-2005-3624 CVE-2005-3625 CVE-2005-3626 CVE-2005-3627 CVE-2005-3628 Debian Bug : 342281
"infamous41md" and Chris Evans discovered several heap based buffer overflows in xpdf, the Portable Document Format (PDF) suite, that can lead to a denial of service by crashing the application or possibly to the execution of arbitrary code.
For the old stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 1.00-3.8.
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 3.00-13.4.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 3.01-4.
We recommend that you upgrade your xpdf 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 3.0 alias woody - --------------------------------