Debian alert: New html2ps packages fix arbitrary code execution

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 192-1                     security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                             Martin Schulze
November 8th, 2002                      http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : html2ps
Vulnerability  : arbitrary code execution
Problem-Type   : local
Debian-specific: no

The SuSE Security Team found a vulnerability in html2ps, a HTML to
PostScript converter, that opened files based on unsanitized input
insecurely.  This problem can be exploited when html2ps is installed
as filter within lrpng and the attacker has previously gained access
to the lp account.

These problems have been fixed in version 1.0b3-1.1 for the current
stable distribution (woody), in version 1.0b1-8.1 for the old stable
distribution (potato) and in version 1.0b3-2 for the unstable
distribution (sid).

We recommend that you upgrade your html2ps package.

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 2.2 alias potato
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  Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/html2ps/html2ps_1.0b1-8.1.dsc
      Size/MD5 checksum:      532 0186c9b695fe3dbac232b9cf1c7eb6f6
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/html2ps/html2ps_1.0b1-8.1.diff.gz
      Size/MD5 checksum:    35539 c1fa5da32f69eea2a3adcc4f721c7dd0
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/html2ps/html2ps_1.0b1.orig.tar.gz
      Size/MD5 checksum:   107435 00fb5ac8c3769473b53ec4ad20e9b7cb

  Architecture independent components:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/html2ps/html2ps_1.0b1-8.1_all.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   134728 5932b4a4d5942c839b1a65817becf641


Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
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  Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/html2ps/html2ps_1.0b3-1.1.dsc
      Size/MD5 checksum:      532 b35f5a5faee268bd86628d77d8022134
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/html2ps/html2ps_1.0b3-1.1.diff.gz
      Size/MD5 checksum:    38137 557760a0fac4d14fb987cc527cfe7632
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/html2ps/html2ps_1.0b3.orig.tar.gz
      Size/MD5 checksum:   121826 984eff60249bcf2d6ce871e32acefb9a

  Architecture independent components:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/html2ps/html2ps_1.0b3-1.1_all.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   146400 4d87852a670ab172aa3d50b99eb049a6


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

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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: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>

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