(fwd) [SECURITY] New version of xpdf released

[Raju Mathur <raju@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

[Please upgrade xpdf, whatever your distribution; this message has
Debian updates, updates for other distributions are available from the
distribution makers -- Raju]

[Cleaning up the headers a bit more since many people have
complained.  I've removed all Received-by and Delivered-to headers --
Raju]

This is an RFC 1153 digest.
(1 message)
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Approved-By: aleph1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
X-Debian: PGP check passed for security officers
Priority: urgent
X-Mailing-List: <debian-security-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> archive/latest/122
X-Loop: debian-security-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Precedence: list
Message-ID:  <K7bNRC.A.nkG.fv4u5@murphy>
Reply-To: security@xxxxxxxxxx
Comments:     Resent-From: debian-security-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Comments:     Originally-From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@xxxxxxxxxx>
From: debian-security-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sender: Bugtraq List <BUGTRAQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: BUGTRAQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:      [SECURITY] New version of xpdf released
Date:         Sun, 10 Sep 2000 06:27:23 -0700

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----

- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Debian Security Advisory                             security@xxxxxxxxxx
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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

- --
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

-----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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

------------------------------

End of this Digest
******************