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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1347-1 (xpdf)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

6.8

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

16 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to xpdf announced via advisory DSA 1347-1.

Insight

Insight

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. For the oldstable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 3.00-13.7. For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 3.01-9etch1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon. We recommend that you upgrade your xpdf packages.

Solution

Solution

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201347-1

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