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Fedora 29 Poppler Security Update: Addressing Memory Leaks and DoS

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Calendar Grey January 24, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 29 introduces a security patch for poppler, rectifying several vulnerabilities, such as memory overflow and denial-of-service risks.
Security fix for CVE-2018-20551, CVE-2018-20481, CVE-2018-20650 and CVE-2018-18897.

Summary

poppler is a PDF rendering library.

Security fix for CVE-2018-20551, CVE-2018-20481, CVE-2018-20650 and

CVE-2018-18897.

* Tue Jan 22 2019 Marek Kasik - 0.67.0-10

- Avoid global display profile state becoming an uncontrolled

- memory leak

- Resolves: #1646549

* Mon Jan 21 2019 Marek Kasik - 0.67.0-9

- Do not try to parse into unallocated XRef entry

- Resolves: #1665268

* Mon Jan 21 2019 Marek Kasik - 0.67.0-8

- Move the fileSpec.dictLookup call inside fileSpec.isDict if

- Resolves: #1665264

* Mon Jan 21 2019 Marek Kasik - 0.67.0-7

- Do not try to construct invalid rich media annotation assets

- Resolves: #1665260

* Thu Nov 15 2018 Marek Kasik - 0.67.0-6

- Check for valid file name of embedded file

- Resolves: #1649451

* Thu Nov 15 2018 Marek Kasik - 0.67.0-5

- Check for valid embedded file before trying to save it

- Resolves: #1649441

* Thu Nov 15 2018 Marek Kasik - 0.67.0-4

- Check for stream before calling stream methods

- when saving an embedded file

- Resolves: #1649436

* Mon Nov 12 2018 Marek Kasik - 0.67.0-3

- Avoid cycles in PDF parsing

- Resolves: #1626620

* Wed Oct 17 2018 Marek Kasik - 0.67.0-2

- Fix crash on missing embedded file

- Resolves: #1569334

[ 1 ] Bug #1665259 - CVE-2018-20551 poppler: reachable Object::getString assertion in AnnotRichMedia class in Annot.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1665259

[ 2 ] Bug #1665266 - CVE-2018-20481 poppler: NULL pointer dereference in the XRef::getEntry in XRef.cc

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1665266

[ 3 ] Bug #1665263 - CVE-2018-20650 poppler: reachable Object::dictLookup assertion in FileSpec class in FileSpec.cc

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1665263

[ 4 ] Bug #1646546 - CVE-2018-18897 poppler: memory leak in GfxColorSpace::setDisplayProfile in GfxState.cc

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1646546

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-7ff7f5093e' 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 29
Version: 0.67.0
Release: 10.fc29
Summary: PDF rendering library

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