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Family: Debian Local Security Checks --> Category: infos
[DSA937] DSA-937-1 tetex-bin Vulnerability Scan
Vulnerability Scan Summary
DSA-937-1 tetex-bin
Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Test
"infamous41md" and Chris Evans discovered several heap based buffer overflows in xpdf,
the Portable Document Format (PDF) suite, which is also present in
tetex-bin, the binary files of teTeX, and which can lead to a denial of
service by crashing the application or possibly to the execution of
arbitrary code.
For the old stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.0.7+20011202-7.7.
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 2.0.2-30sarge4.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.4.3-2 of poppler against which tetex-bin links.
We recommend that you upgrade your tetex-bin package.
Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-937
Threat Level: High
Click HERE for more information and discussions on this network vulnerability scan.
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