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Debian Security Advisory DSA 972-1 (pdfkit.framework)
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 pdfkit.framework announced via advisory DSA 972-1. SuSE researchers discovered heap overflow errors in xpdf, the Portable Document Format (PDF) suite, which is also present in pdfkit.framework, the GNUstep framework for rendering PDF content, and which can allow attackers to cause a denial of service by crashing the application or possibly execute arbitrary code. The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain pdfkit.framework packages.
Solution
Solution
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.8-2sarge2. For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 0.8-4 by switching to poppler. We recommend that you upgrade your pdfkit.framework package. https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20972-1