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tetex-bin package

  1. Bug #14171
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 14171

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In , Hilmar Preusse (hille42) wrote : Re: Bug#300182: tetex-bin still vulnerable to CAN-2004-0888 (CAN-2005-0206)

On 18.03.05 Joey Hess (<email address hidden>) wrote:
> Hilmar Preusse wrote:

Hi,

> > As recently discovered the patch, which fixed CAN-2004-0888,
> > seems to be broken on all 64bit platforms (tested only on ia64
> > though).[1]
>
> Note that CAN-2005-0206 has been assigned for this issue.
>
> BTW, since you were able to track this one down, do you have any
> info about the other packages (cupsys, xpdf, etc) that also has
> CAN-2004-0888? Do they also need fixes, and do you have a patch for
> them?
>
Martin Pitt <martin <at> piware.de> told me, that tetex-bin is not
vulnerable as the file debian/patches/patch-CAN-2004-0888 continas
not the original patch form the xpdf developer, but already a fixed
version of the patch. So we should not be affected.

Sorry for the confusion!
  Hilmar
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