-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 1243-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff December 28th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : evince Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem-Type : local(remote) Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-5864 Renaud Lifchitz discovered that gv, the PostScript and PDF viewer for X, performs insufficient boundary checks in the Postscript parsing code, which allows the execution of arbitrary code through a buffer overflow. Evince embeds a copy of gv and needs an update as well. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.1.5-2sarge1. For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 0.4.0-3. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.4.0-3. We recommend that you upgrade your evince package. Upgrade Instructions - -------------------- 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 below: 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 - -------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5-2sarge1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 1627 82308e07e1d4ff19d5c20bfa08a2ca4d http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5-2sarge1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 35845 31a28bde68dcb7d3e251f9dc1b9f88ab http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 1005696 cc698ae555493976c43275894e235aa3 Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5-2sarge1_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 615800 e9d03d4c920192617d3648626f6278cf AMD64 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5-2sarge1_amd64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 539460 023f8defb0d66307fadd02d4e28e74bc ARM architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5-2sarge1_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 542130 fa1d8a7dae315c096d2ab50a072df5a1 HP Precision architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5-2sarge1_hppa.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 641274 933d0b4eb4674cd0b9371eb45b9db683 Intel IA-32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5-2sarge1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 547712 701bf1d4c90d3df689b473c5ee49a2c6 Intel IA-64 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5-2sarge1_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 698850 6e716fc726f6697ef00cd159bb62797e Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5-2sarge1_m68k.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 513772 d935177d44a9966c6d9a70b5789c8c99 Big endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5-2sarge1_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 561008 25acbd50276a480fd90e21ab4a0ef1e1 Little endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5-2sarge1_mipsel.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 555142 53a745c52d5832a10b482e64c230ad14 PowerPC architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5-2sarge1_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 551168 2d1a37729b9ccec24c8549c583672fc3 IBM S/390 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5-2sarge1_s390.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 544150 db01c57b798b13ff73fed60b6c2f192c Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evince/evince_0.1.5-2sarge1_sparc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 521424 176053a2c120ee66cf5f449ee7eb3d07 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ' and http://packages.debian.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFkwzrXm3vHE4uyloRAptOAJ4v2j2F2fmd6/KO5+t6DhTYK3Xh0ACfbb9S zP9qDW6nYYTk3khlBUspb/o= =3BYe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/