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Debian DSA-983-1 : pdftohtml - several vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 22849

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Derek Noonburg has fixed several potential vulnerabilities in xpdf, which are also present in pdftohtml, a utility that translates PDF documents into HTML format.

Solution

Upgrade the pdftohtml package.

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.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-983

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 22849

File Name: debian_DSA-983.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/14/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Temporal Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:pdftohtml, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/28/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/1/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-1244

BID: 16748

DSA: 983