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Fedora: 2018:048468d7a8 Critical: Poppler Crash Overflow Issue

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Calendar Grey January 10, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Update for libxml2 addresses CVE-2017-1000455 on Fedora 27, bolstering application security and performance.
Security fix for CVE-2017-1000456.

Summary

poppler is a PDF rendering library.

Security fix for CVE-2017-1000456.

[ 1 ] Bug #1531382 - CVE-2017-1000456 poppler: Invalid read in TextPool::addWord() causes crash and can lead to overflow in subsequent calculations

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1531382

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

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Product: Fedora 27
Version: 0.57.0
Release: 7.fc27
Summary: PDF rendering library

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