- --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA 1220-1                    security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                         Moritz Muehlenhoff
November 26th, 2006                     http://www.debian.org/security/faq
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------Package        : pstotext
Vulnerability  : insecure file name quoting
Problem-Type   : local(remote)
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID         : CVE-2006-5869
Debian Bug     : 356988

Brian May discovered that pstotext, a utility to extract plain text from
Postscript and PDF files, performs insufficient quoting of file names,
which allows execution of arbitrary shell commands.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.9-1sarge2. The build for the mipsel architecture is not yet
available due to technical problems with the build host.

For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) this problem has been
fixed in version 1.9-4.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.9-4.

We recommend that you upgrade your pstotext 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
- --------------------------------  Source archives:

          Size/MD5 checksum:      566 56e79abcf02e841e78267bda1faff734
          Size/MD5 checksum:     8857 4efb7277f17fca5ebd20573d93b11a83
          Size/MD5 checksum:    37461 64576e8a10ff5514e285d98b3898ae78

  Alpha architecture:

          Size/MD5 checksum:    34218 57b121ba1a0f5d53412ab5587c611d68

  AMD64 architecture:

          Size/MD5 checksum:    33872 cc72441f0565d8225ae1e97a7df34a82

  ARM architecture:

          Size/MD5 checksum:    32532 9a3cf4674a2632ac1742551cb27cbe39

  HP Precision architecture:

          Size/MD5 checksum:    34492 f8a9db92d0ad4d81d58fcc6e763faf47

  Intel IA-32 architecture:

          Size/MD5 checksum:    32864 13c32d5164243e60e2ef00878c973c2f

  Intel IA-64 architecture:

          Size/MD5 checksum:    38038 dcfae670ad3dd9911d5085bcc177a8eb

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:

          Size/MD5 checksum:    31552 9dcd158543df00f1a13012647ec842bb

  Big endian MIPS architecture:

          Size/MD5 checksum:    34404 32922b44fef79abce8ca78587eb55453

  PowerPC architecture:

          Size/MD5 checksum:    33636 75f0beb7494479f926c19a1f7e2b8297

  IBM S/390 architecture:

          Size/MD5 checksum:    33218 096e0022136b767152d2da4a1563edc5

  Sun Sparc architecture:

          Size/MD5 checksum:    33246 5e47a79b9092cae3878294f49bf211c2


  These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
  its next update.

- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp:  dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org