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Debian 3.1 DSA-932-1 Critical: KPDF Buffer Overflow Impacting Users

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Calendar Grey January 27, 2006
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 932-1 http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze January 9th, 2006
"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 ...
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Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 3.3.2-2sarge3.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 3.5.0-3.

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

Size/MD5 checksum: 1317 883261a391a85afb038bb7ea2150ecd7
Size/MD5 checksum: 159106 1169ddf001b77319f2859c87ce482bc4
Size/MD5 checksum: 7661488 6d0bb2c6e2e2f666d123778fbc520317

Architecture independent components:

Size/MD...

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