Summary
The remote host is missing an update to tetex-bin
announced via advisory DSA 937-1.
infamous41md and Chris Evans discovered several heap based buffer overflows in xpdf, the Portable Document Format (PDF) suite, which is also present in tetex-bin, the binary files of teTeX, and which can lead to a denial of service by crashing the application or possibly to the execution of arbitrary code.
For the old stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.7+20011202-7.7.
Solution
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.2-30sarge4.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 0.4.3-2 of poppler against which tetex-bin links.
We recommend that you upgrade your tetex-bin package.
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20937-1
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2005-3191, CVE-2005-3192, CVE-2005-3624, CVE-2005-3625, CVE-2005-3626, CVE-2005-3627, CVE-2005-3628 -
CVSS Base Score: 10.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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