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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-390-3          December 06, 2006
evince-gtk vulnerability
CVE-2006-5864
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A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
Ubuntu 6.10

This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of
Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.

The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the
following package versions:

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS:
  evince-gtk                               0.5.2-0ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 6.10:
  evince-gtk                               0.5.2-0ubuntu4.1

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

Details follow:

USN-390-2 fixed vulnerabilities in evince.  This update provides the 
corresponding update for evince-gtk.

Original advisory details:

  A buffer overflow was discovered in the PostScript processor included 
  in evince.  By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted PS 
  file, an attacker could crash evince or execute arbitrary code with 
  the user's privileges.


Updated packages for Ubuntu 6.06 LTS:

  Source archives:

          Size/MD5:    22511 0cf118d6918268ba4f53c9b21c2e4abc
          Size/MD5:      893 6bd5d56c1d26042f0882ad1c8f35d8c4
          Size/MD5:  1362513 5020afb1768d89c251ad8c2a233d9fcf

  amd64 architecture (Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon)

          Size/MD5:   311524 9afc1a61adb192c0c115bcc8231008c1

  i386 architecture (x86 compatible Intel/AMD)

          Size/MD5:   282212 15a8292c95bed93d2af5d4917172ca8c

  powerpc architecture (Apple Macintosh G3/G4/G5)

          Size/MD5:   299064 510f7b8c93b8a8a65f71cae17176cd59

  sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)

          Size/MD5:   287254 f75088c1015e44cf7ed2633340d0d24f

Updated packages for Ubuntu 6.10:

  Source archives:

          Size/MD5:    22622 194a824da15c50fe472762f960f2b9fb
          Size/MD5:      893 24d9a86b4a012fd133ee37b538e9156c
          Size/MD5:  1362513 5020afb1768d89c251ad8c2a233d9fcf

  amd64 architecture (Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon)

          Size/MD5:   305732 af144ed0736a7ef77aba67ef9cbbeaae

  i386 architecture (x86 compatible Intel/AMD)

          Size/MD5:   286362 21f58e429f79a605fa2bff0c36a7cbb6

  powerpc architecture (Apple Macintosh G3/G4/G5)

          Size/MD5:   293918 c9e00c6154cddae33bd8c99afbace8fd

  sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)

          Size/MD5:   282784 596cfcc780feac5016866a46375cbc42


Ubuntu: evince-gtk vulnerability

December 6, 2006
USN-390-2 fixed vulnerabilities in evince

Summary

Update Instructions

References

Severity
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-390-3 December 06, 2006

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