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Debian Security Advisory DSA 226-1 (xpdf-i)

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.2

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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-i announced via advisory DSA 226-1.

Insight

Insight

iDEFENSE discovered an integer overflow in the pdftops filter from the xpdf and xpdf-i packages that can be exploited to gain the privileges of the target user. This can lead to gaining privileged access to the 'lp' user if thee pdftops program is part of the print filter. For the current stable distribution (woody) xpdf-i is only a dummy package and the problem was fixed in xpdf already. For the old stable distribution (potato) this problem has been fixed in version 0.90-8.1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.01-2. We recommend that you upgrade your xpdf-i package.

Solution

Solution

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20226-1

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