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Debian Security Advisory DSA 962-1 (pdftohtml)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to pdftohtml announced via advisory DSA 962-1. infamous41md and Chris Evans discovered several heap based buffer overflows in xpdf which are also present in pdftohtml, a utility that translates PDF documents into HTML format, and which can lead to a denial of service by crashing the application or possibly to the execution of arbitrary code. The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain pdftohtml packages.
Solution
Solution
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.36-11sarge1. For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon. We recommend that you upgrade your pdftohtml package. https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20962-1