Debian 4.0 DSA 1348-1 Moderate: Poppler Integer Overflow Risk
debian
August 4, 2007
It was discovered that an integer overflow in the xpdf PDF viewer may lead
to the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed PDF file is opened.
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Summary
The oldstable distribution (sarge) doesn't include poppler.
For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.4.5-5.1etch1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your poppler packages.
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 at the end of this advisory:
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 4.0 alias etch
Size/MD5 checksum: 749 b1346c2cb4aee0ae1ca33ba060094007
Size/MD5 checksum: 482690 2f989d0448c2692300bd751bf522f5bd
Size/MD5 checksum: 783752 2bb1c75aa3f9c42f0ba48b5492e...
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