Debian: New version of xpdf released

Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 15:22:42 +0200
From: Wichert Akkerman wichert@cistron.nl
Reply-To: security@debian.org
To: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Subject: [SECURITY] New version of xpdf released
Resent-Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 13:27:12 GMT
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Debian Security Advisory                             security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                         Wichert Akkerman
September 10, 2000
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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/ .

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