Debian DSA 612-1 High Severity: A2ps Command Execution Risk

debian

December 20, 2004

Rudolf Polzer discovered a vulnerability in a2ps, a converter and pretty-printer for many formats to PostScript

Topics Covered

security advisory high severity Debian arbitrary commands a2ps command execution printer filter

Summary

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.13b-4.2.

We recommend that you upgrade your a2ps 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
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