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----- Forwarded message from Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- To: Debian Security Announcements <[email protected]> From: Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 18:22:27 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [SECURITY] [DSA 1136-1] New gpdf packages fix denial of service - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 1136-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze August 2nd, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : gpdf Vulnerability : wrong input sanitising Problem type : local (remote) Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2005-2097 BugTraq ID : 14529 Debian Bug : 334454 "infamous41md" and Chris Evans discovered several heap based buffer overflows in xpdf, the Portable Document Format (PDF) suite, which are also present in gpdf, the viewer with Gtk bindings, and which can lead to a denial of service by crashing the application or possibly to the execution of arbitrary code. For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 2.8.2-1.2sarge5. For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 2.10.0-4. We recommend that you upgrade your gpdf package. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- The Kid Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
