Debian: DSA-1400-1 high: gnome-shell memory leak vulnerability
debian
August 13, 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
For the oldstable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.3.2-2sarge5.
For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.5.5-3etch1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.5.7-3.
We recommend that you upgrade your kpdf 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 3.1 alias sarge
Size/MD5 checksum: 1317 9547aeaa9b4c6056d1fb5e9cdfb5c36f
Size/MD5 checksum: 159349 068b86c3db810cab2174d48b65915fb2
Size/MD5 ch...
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