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Fedora 24 Poppler Update: Critical Null Pointer Issue Resolved

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Calendar Grey June 15, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A significant security patch for Poppler in Fedora 24 resolves null pointer concerns within pdfunite that impact document handling.
CVE-2017-7511 poppler: Null pointer dereference in pdfunite via crafted documents

Summary

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

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

CVE-2017-7511 poppler: Null pointer dereference in pdfunite via crafted

documents

[ 1 ] Bug #1456828 - CVE-2017-7511 poppler: Null pointer dereference in pdfunite via crafted documents [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1456828

su -c 'dnf upgrade poppler' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org

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Change Log

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 24
Version: 0.41.0
Release: 4.fc24
Summary: PDF rendering library

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