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Gentoo GLSA-201904-04 Normal: Poppler DoS and Security Issues

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Calendar Grey April 2, 2019
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Enhance your Poppler installation on Gentoo to address various security flaws, particularly those leading to Denial of Service threats. Find out more now.
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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service gentoo multiple issues poppler normal severity

Resolution

All Poppler users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-text/poppler-0.70.0"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2018-19149 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19149

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-04
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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.

Severity: Normal
Title: Poppler: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: April 02, 2019
Bugs: #659828, #670880
ID: 201904-04

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service gentoo multiple issues poppler normal severity

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Poppler, the worst of which could allow a Denial of Service.

Background

Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code base.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-text/poppler < 0.70.0 >= 0.70.0

Impact

===== Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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