[SECURITY] [DSA 1220-1] New pstotext packages fix arbitrary shell command execution

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1220-1 [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
November 26th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq

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Package : pstotext
Vulnerability : insecure file name quoting
Problem-Type : local(remote)
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2006-5869
Debian Bug : 356988

Brian May discovered that pstotext, a utility to extract plain text from
Postscript and PDF files, performs insufficient quoting of file names,
which allows execution of arbitrary shell commands.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.9-1sarge2. The build for the mipsel architecture is not yet
available due to technical problems with the build host.

For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) this problem has been
fixed in version 1.9-4.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.9-4.

We recommend that you upgrade your pstotext package.

Upgrade Instructions

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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

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Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge2.dsc
  Size/MD5 checksum:      566 56e79abcf02e841e78267bda1faff734
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge2.diff.gz
  Size/MD5 checksum:     8857 4efb7277f17fca5ebd20573d93b11a83
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9.orig.tar.gz
  Size/MD5 checksum:    37461 64576e8a10ff5514e285d98b3898ae78

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge2_alpha.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    34218 57b121ba1a0f5d53412ab5587c611d68

AMD64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge2_amd64.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    33872 cc72441f0565d8225ae1e97a7df34a82

ARM architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge2_arm.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    32532 9a3cf4674a2632ac1742551cb27cbe39

HP Precision architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge2_hppa.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    34492 f8a9db92d0ad4d81d58fcc6e763faf47

Intel IA-32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge2_i386.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    32864 13c32d5164243e60e2ef00878c973c2f

Intel IA-64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge2_ia64.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    38038 dcfae670ad3dd9911d5085bcc177a8eb

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge2_m68k.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    31552 9dcd158543df00f1a13012647ec842bb

Big endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge2_mips.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    34404 32922b44fef79abce8ca78587eb55453

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge2_powerpc.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    33636 75f0beb7494479f926c19a1f7e2b8297

IBM S/390 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge2_s390.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    33218 096e0022136b767152d2da4a1563edc5

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-1sarge2_sparc.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    33246 5e47a79b9092cae3878294f49bf211c2

These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.

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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: [email protected]
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/&lt;pkg&gt;
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