Package : koffice Vulnerability : several Problem type : local (remote) Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-1244 Bugtraq ID : 16748
Derek Noonburg has fixed several potential vulnerabilities in xpdf, the Portable Document Format (PDF) suite, which is also present in koffice, the KDE Office Suite.
The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain kpdf packages.
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 1.3.5-4.sarge.3.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon.
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 - --------------------------------