Gentoo: GLSA-201804-03 Moderate: Poppler Denial of Service Risk
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April 8, 2018
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Poppler, the worst of which could allow a Denial of Service.
Summary
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Poppler. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
Topics Covered
Resolution
All Poppler users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-text/poppler-0.61.1"
References
[ 1 ] CVE-2017-1000456 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000456 [ 2 ] CVE-2017-14975 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14975 [ 3 ] CVE-2017-14976 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14976 [ 4 ] CVE-2017-14977 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14977
Availability
This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-03
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Concerns
Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.
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Severity: Normal
Title: Poppler: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: April 08, 2018
Bugs: #644388, #645868
ID: 201804-03
Topics Covered
Background
Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code base.
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Affected Packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 app-text/poppler < 0.61.1 >= 0.61.1
Impact
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A remote attacker, by enticing a user to open a specially crafted PDF,
could cause a Denial of Service condition or have other unspecified
impacts.
Workaround
There is no known workaround at this time.
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