Debian: xpdf vulnerabilities
Summary
Package : xpdf
Problem type : local exploit
Debian-specific: no
xpdf as distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 suffered from two problems:
1. creation of temporary files was not done safely which made xpdf
vulnerable to a symlink attack.
2. when handling URLs in documents no checking was done for shell
metacharacters before starting the browser. This makes it possible
to construct a document which cause xpdf to run arbitrary commands
when the user views an URL.
Both problems have been fixed in version 0.90-7, and we recommend you
upgrade your xpdf package immediately.
wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
Potato was released for the alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc
architectures. At this moment no fixed package is available for arm
machines.
Source archives:
MD5 checksum: e9b2584ea9dda178ed1a63771aa7019f
MD5 checksum: 332ca1d9970dda5808538793bd3e346d
MD5 checksum: a7678b64713a466279b61c28ba01134b
Alpha architecture:
MD5 checksum: cb4cf0761c5b5ae53c5fdbc84ef2b76d
Intel ia32 architecture:
MD5 checksum: 9c8379176a3af032d1e6ec96e084c0d4
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
MD5 checksum: 9a1d4b46ef498bee595a028d96ff6ba4
PowerPC architecture:
MD5 checksum: 489a06b7961873c2482e28108133d065
Sun Sparc architecture:
MD5 checksum: 46d1781a7d21f8ffb02137ebf22f20de
These files will be moved into
soon.
For not yet released architectures please refer to the appropriate
directory .
For apt-get: deb Debian -- Security Information stable updates
For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
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For apt-get: deb Debian -- Security Information stable updates
For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
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