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Debian 3.1 DSA-974-1 Critical: gpdf Buffer Overflow Attack

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Calendar Grey February 15, 2006
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A vulnerability affecting gpdf on Debian has been resolved in advisory DSA-974-1, which includes comprehensive update guidelines.
Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 2.8.2-1.2sarge3.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your gpdf 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: 1663 df225affa785bd87ec77fa638622fa22
Size/MD5 checksum: 35587 886283dbf45b0a52a56c568dfd01fc0c
Size/MD5 checksum: 1245535 5ceb66aa95e51c4e1d6e10cb29560ff9

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 867776 3eae015fd8...

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