Debian Security Advisory
DSA-983-1 pdftohtml -- several vulnerabilities
- Date Reported:
- 28 Feb 2006
- Affected Packages:
- pdftohtml
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 16748.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-1244. - More information:
-
Derek Noonburg has fixed several potential vulnerabilities in xpdf, which are also present in pdftohtml, a utility that translates PDF documents into HTML format.
The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain pdftohtml packages.
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.36-11sarge2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 0.36-12.
We recommend that you upgrade your pdftohtml package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdftohtml/pdftohtml_0.36-11sarge2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdftohtml/pdftohtml_0.36-11sarge2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdftohtml/pdftohtml_0.36.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdftohtml/pdftohtml_0.36-11sarge2.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdftohtml/pdftohtml_0.36-11sarge2_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdftohtml/pdftohtml_0.36-11sarge2_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdftohtml/pdftohtml_0.36-11sarge2_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdftohtml/pdftohtml_0.36-11sarge2_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdftohtml/pdftohtml_0.36-11sarge2_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdftohtml/pdftohtml_0.36-11sarge2_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdftohtml/pdftohtml_0.36-11sarge2_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdftohtml/pdftohtml_0.36-11sarge2_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdftohtml/pdftohtml_0.36-11sarge2_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdftohtml/pdftohtml_0.36-11sarge2_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdftohtml/pdftohtml_0.36-11sarge2_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdftohtml/pdftohtml_0.36-11sarge2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.