Debian Security Advisory DSA 2951-1 (mupdf - Security Update) Network Vulnerability

Summary

It was discovered that a buffer overflow in the MuPDF viewer might lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

Solution

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 0.9-2+deb7u2. For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.3-2. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.3-2. We recommend that you upgrade your mupdf packages.

Insight

MuPDF is a lightweight PDF viewer and toolkit written in portable C.

Affected

mupdf on Debian Linux

Detection

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

References