The Debian Security Team published a new security update for Debian GNU/Linux. Here the announcement:
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1354-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
August 13th, 2007 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : gpdf
Vulnerability : integer overflow
Problem type : local (remote)
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2007-3387
It was discovered that an integer overflow in xpdf PDF viewer may lead
to the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed PDF file is opened.
gpdf includes a copy of the xpdf code and requires an update as well.
For the oldstable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.8.2-1.2sarge6.
The stable distribution (etch) no longer contains gpdf.
The unstable distribution (sid) no longer contains gpdf.
We recommend that you upgrade your gpdf packages.
Upgrade Instructions
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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
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Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gpdf/gpdf_2.8.2-1.2sarge6.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 1663 508dfe3e8af751e8ce4f9b0e5ab59889
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gpdf/gpdf_2.8.2-1.2sarge6.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 38814 708461f883679a3faacb5c3ea576b70c
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_2.8.2-1.2sarge6_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 871844 17eff64fe6e84fd163d5572410840e47
AMD64 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gpdf/gpdf_2.8.2-1.2sarge6_amd64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 795866 cee6613e8cc8fe7feffbea3090b3b2b4
ARM architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gpdf/gpdf_2.8.2-1.2sarge6_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 781972 efb47c5c872b054b5155fbbe8fe14657
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
Intel IA-32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gpdf/gpdf_2.8.2-1.2sarge6_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 782330 2bf9259f3e7dad3ff6cb4b7d01a11a80
Intel IA-64 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gpdf/gpdf_2.8.2-1.2sarge6_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 958676 1c86665357e64afe5a7d61a75ff34cfc
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gpdf/gpdf_2.8.2-1.2sarge6_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 746228 e192344892e794ceb6ba095edf51c04b
Big endian MIPS architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gpdf/gpdf_2.8.2-1.2sarge6_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 818722 5f67cb402dbf493ccf3ad1ad3dd135d3
Little endian MIPS architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gpdf/gpdf_2.8.2-1.2sarge6_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 811276 ae28c520096cd3ef94988f5ce0177693
PowerPC architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gpdf/gpdf_2.8.2-1.2sarge6_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 799928 feac7c0451a8e391a05ec67e45263376
IBM S/390 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gpdf/gpdf_2.8.2-1.2sarge6_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 776318 e8109413c0351d45e76099cb6061e33f
Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gpdf/gpdf_2.8.2-1.2sarge6_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 764034 b473d9e4d5e4693eda7cbe3e93a6f7f0
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.
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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>
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