-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Wichert Akkerman September 10, 2000 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package : xpdf Problem type : local exploit Debian-specific: no xpdf as distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 suffered from two problems: 1. creation of temporary files was not done safely which made xpdf vulnerable to a symlink attack. 2. when handling URLs in documents no checking was done for shell metacharacters before starting the browser. This makes it possible to construct a document which cause xpdf to run arbitrary commands when the user views an URL. Both problems have been fixed in version 0.90-7, and we recommend you upgrade your xpdf package immediately. wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato - --------------------------------- Potato was released for the alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc architectures. At this moment no fixed package is available for arm machines. Source archives: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/xpdf_0.90-7.diff.gz MD5 checksum: e9b2584ea9dda178ed1a63771aa7019f http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/xpdf_0.90-7.dsc MD5 checksum: 332ca1d9970dda5808538793bd3e346d http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/xpdf_0.90.orig.tar.gz MD5 checksum: a7678b64713a466279b61c28ba01134b Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/xpdf_0.90-7_alpha.deb MD5 checksum: cb4cf0761c5b5ae53c5fdbc84ef2b76d Intel ia32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/xpdf_0.90-7_i386.deb MD5 checksum: 9c8379176a3af032d1e6ec96e084c0d4 Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/xpdf_0.90-7_m68k.deb MD5 checksum: 9a1d4b46ef498bee595a028d96ff6ba4 PowerPC architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/xpdf_0.90-7_powerpc.deb MD5 checksum: 489a06b7961873c2482e28108133d065 Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/xpdf_0.90-7_sparc.deb MD5 checksum: 46d1781a7d21f8ffb02137ebf22f20de These files will be moved into ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/*/binary-$arch/ soon. For not yet released architectures please refer to the appropriate directory ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/binary-$arch/ . - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable updates For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable updates For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBObuLHajZR/ntlUftAQHgJwL/U1MmS29NHJHgrI6aBhBvTqM0wOKfbJVG cZadGyREEz3Gwu6ckmQi2SQiCzK4YtTptQBo/ID38eNojp56Qkf0G45bt1OaxCBy Fd+lDzrVnPzy37mEc4eQTy/jRaH2EucA =ZMId -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-announce-request@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
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