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Fedora 23: FEDORA-2016-a97dfe609c Moderate: Poppler Heap Overflow

fedora
Calendar Grey April 15, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Buffer overflow issue in poppler library patched in recent Fedora release. Discover the specifics of the security update.
A heap buffer overflow vulnerability was removed from the poppler library.

Summary

Poppler, a PDF rendering library, is a fork of the xpdf PDF

viewer developed by Derek Noonburg of Glyph and Cog, LLC.

Update Information:

A heap buffer overflow vulnerability was removed from the poppler library.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora security fix poppler heap buffer overflow

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1326226 - poppler: heap buffer overflow [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1326226

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update poppler' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

Name: poppler
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 0.34.0
Release: 2.fc23
URL: http://poppler.freedesktop.org/
Summary: PDF rendering library

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora security fix poppler heap buffer overflow

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