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Fedora 26: 2017-086d989cce Critical: Poppler Null Pointer Issue

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Essential poppler update for Fedora 26 resolves null pointer vulnerability arising from specially designed PDFs. Security upgrade advised.
CVE-2017-7511 poppler: Null pointer dereference in pdfunite via crafted documents

Summary

poppler is a PDF rendering library.

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/

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical software update Fedora null pointer poppler pdfunite

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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 0.52.0
Release: 2.fc26
URL: http://poppler.freedesktop.org/
Summary: PDF rendering library

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical software update Fedora null pointer poppler pdfunite

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