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openSUSE Leap 15.4 SUSE-SU-2023:4690-1 Moderate: Poppler DoS

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Calendar Grey December 14, 2023
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The latest patch for poppler resolves a Denial-of-Service vulnerability in the PDFDoc configuration with a moderate level of risk, safeguarding system stability.
This update for poppler fixes the following issues: CVE-2018-20662: PDFDoc setup in PDFDoc.cc allows attackers to cause DOS because of a wrong return value from PDFDoc:setup (bsc#1...

Description

This update for poppler fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2018-20662: PDFDoc setup in PDFDoc.cc allows attackers to cause DOS

because of a wrong return value from PDFDoc:setup (bsc#1120956).

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update DoS moderate severity poppler openSUSE PDFDoc

Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like

YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

* openSUSE Leap 15.4

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.4-2023-4690=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* libpoppler73-debuginfo-0.62.0-150000.4.34.1

* libpoppler73-0.62.0-150000.4.34.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (x86_64)

* libpoppler73-32bit-debuginfo-0.62.0-150000.4.34.1

* libpoppler73-32bit-0.62.0-150000.4.34.1

References

* bsc#1120956

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-20662.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1120956

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2023:4690-1
Rating: moderate

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update DoS moderate severity poppler openSUSE PDFDoc

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