Re: acroread

["Jeffrey W. Baker" <jwbaker@acm.org>]

On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 09:45, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I am running woody and I need the Acrobar PDF reader. I can't find it in the 
> woody package repository, however it is in potato (acroread 4.05-3) and in sid 
> (acroread 4.05-5). I am quite sure that it was in woody too. What happened to 
> it?

A grave bug was lodged against acroread because that program statically
links zlib, and may be vulnerable to the zlib double free problem.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=137997&repeatmerged=yes

-jwb


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