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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2006.0540 -- [Debian] New gpdf packages fix denial of service 3 August 2006 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: gpdf Publisher: Debian Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Impact: Denial of Service Access: Remote/Unauthenticated CVE Names: CVE-2005-2097 Ref: ESB-2005.0629 Original Bulletin: http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1136 - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 1136-1 security@debian.org 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. Upgrade Instructions - - -------------------- wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given at the end of this advisory: apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge - - -------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gpdf/gpdf_2.8.2-1.2sarge5.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 1663 d7cd341afa44a55b1d6b6e177506df73 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gpdf/gpdf_2.8.2-1.2sarge5.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 37001 4c0f08229d68b89376f1dafbd2785602 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gpdf/gpdf_2.8.2.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 1245535 5ceb66aa95e51c4e1d6e10cb29560ff9 Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gpdf/gpdf_2.8.2-1.2sarge5_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 868192 a1165a52e231ad0d7288956259f6dac1 AMD64 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gpdf/gpdf_2.8.2-1.2sarge5_amd64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 795826 b77396935f929046e71688cf6c803718 ARM architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gpdf/gpdf_2.8.2-1.2sarge5_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 781744 4bd8fcb7aa0e8d8073f9c834f492273e Intel IA-32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gpdf/gpdf_2.8.2-1.2sarge5_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 782022 6e3c2f14a9f79a0fa8d6c7146329cf55 Intel IA-64 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gpdf/gpdf_2.8.2-1.2sarge5_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 958464 f60ab132197b6451be37e95c7b0802f6 HP Precision architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gpdf/gpdf_2.8.2-1.2sarge5_hppa.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 859960 52fc5ab1c1c7b0a337093196d08076af Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gpdf/gpdf_2.8.2-1.2sarge5_m68k.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 746044 07af12e76e683943d028347673b325dc Big endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gpdf/gpdf_2.8.2-1.2sarge5_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 818708 789e70f91a8b43909790389833f5c2f9 Little endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gpdf/gpdf_2.8.2-1.2sarge5_mipsel.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 811194 6f27ce39b1d79d49992ae66e6fc45b13 PowerPC architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gpdf/gpdf_2.8.2-1.2sarge5_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 799932 f7f6e5df3d35a4e24ef714a02300bb89 IBM S/390 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gpdf/gpdf_2.8.2-1.2sarge5_s390.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 776202 0c511feed7677d69e5e9b901239c25e0 Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gpdf/gpdf_2.8.2-1.2sarge5_sparc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 763980 90c9205b4bc9b61b46d8d46c09e74b83 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg> - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE0NFDW5ql+IAeqTIRAgiMAKCwmRMFU8xGjhI4x1PIdheeLKxFAQCgs3pU rbZd04m1abOmaJXU6vDNBgg= =pThg - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - --------------------------END INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- You have received this e-mail bulletin as a result of your organisation's registration with AusCERT. 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