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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2006.0950 -- [UNIX/Linux][Debian] New evince packages fix arbitrary code execution 29 December 2006 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: evince Publisher: Debian Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Linux variants Solaris BSD variants Impact: Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands Access: Remote/Unauthenticated CVE Names: CVE-2006-5864 Ref: ESB-2006.0856 Original Bulletin: http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1243 Comment: This advisory references vulnerabilities in products which run on platforms other than Debian. It is recommended that administrators running evince check for an updated version of the software for their operating system. - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 1243-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff December 28th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : evince Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem-Type : local(remote) Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-5864 Renaud Lifchitz discovered that gv, the PostScript and PDF viewer for X, performs insufficient boundary checks in the Postscript parsing code, which allows the execution of arbitrary code through a buffer overflow. Evince embeds a copy of gv and needs an update as well. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.1.5-2sarge1. For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 0.4.0-3. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.4.0-3. We recommend that you upgrade your evince 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 below: 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/e/evince/evince_0.1.5-2sarge1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 1627 82308e07e1d4ff19d5c20bfa08a2ca4d http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5-2sarge1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 35845 31a28bde68dcb7d3e251f9dc1b9f88ab http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 1005696 cc698ae555493976c43275894e235aa3 Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5-2sarge1_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 615800 e9d03d4c920192617d3648626f6278cf AMD64 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5-2sarge1_amd64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 539460 023f8defb0d66307fadd02d4e28e74bc ARM architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5-2sarge1_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 542130 fa1d8a7dae315c096d2ab50a072df5a1 HP Precision architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5-2sarge1_hppa.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 641274 933d0b4eb4674cd0b9371eb45b9db683 Intel IA-32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5-2sarge1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 547712 701bf1d4c90d3df689b473c5ee49a2c6 Intel IA-64 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5-2sarge1_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 698850 6e716fc726f6697ef00cd159bb62797e Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5-2sarge1_m68k.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 513772 d935177d44a9966c6d9a70b5789c8c99 Big endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5-2sarge1_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 561008 25acbd50276a480fd90e21ab4a0ef1e1 Little endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5-2sarge1_mipsel.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 555142 53a745c52d5832a10b482e64c230ad14 PowerPC architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5-2sarge1_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 551168 2d1a37729b9ccec24c8549c583672fc3 IBM S/390 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5-2sarge1_s390.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 544150 db01c57b798b13ff73fed60b6c2f192c Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5-2sarge1_sparc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 521424 176053a2c120ee66cf5f449ee7eb3d07 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 v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFkwzrXm3vHE4uyloRAptOAJ4v2j2F2fmd6/KO5+t6DhTYK3Xh0ACfbb9S zP9qDW6nYYTk3khlBUspb/o= =3BYe - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- AusCERT has made every effort to ensure that the information contained in this document is accurate. 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