DSA-983-1 pdftohtml -- several vulnerabilities

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

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.