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Debian: DSA 972-1 Critical: pdfkit.framework Buffer Overflow Issue

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Calendar Grey February 15, 2006
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Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.8-2sarge2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.8-4 by switching to poppler.

We recommend that you upgrade your pdfkit.framework 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: 725 7f73aebe47f6276e59274a791dbf9f1d
Size/MD5 checksum: 6014 04f72fb2031311bbf6bf433e440a18e7
Size/MD5 checksum: 1780533 7676643ff78a0602c10bfb97fe0bd448

Alpha architecture:

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