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Red Hat 5: RHSA-2010:0749-01 Critical: Poppler Denial of Service Issue

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Calendar Grey October 7, 2010
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Crucial update from Red Hat for poppler tackles severe vulnerabilities impacting PDF software, rapidly improving safety.
Updated poppler packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at

Summary

Poppler is a Portable Document Format (PDF) rendering library, used by applications such as Evince.
An uninitialized pointer use flaw was discovered in poppler. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that, when opened, would cause applications that use poppler (such as Evince) to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2010-3702)
An array index error was found in the way poppler parsed PostScript Type 1 fonts embedded in PDF documents. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that, when opened, would cause applications that use poppler (such as Evince) to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2010-3704)
Users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues.

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue Red Hat Denial of Service poppler PDF threat

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-3702 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-3704 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client):
Source:
i386: poppler-0.5.4-4.4.el5_5.14.i386.rpm poppler-debuginfo-0.5.4-4.4.el5_5.14.i386.rpm poppler-utils-0.5.4-4.4.el5_5.14.i386.rpm
x86_64: poppler-0.5.4-4.4.el5_5.14.i386.rpm poppler-0.5.4-4.4.el5_5.14.x86_64.rpm poppler-debuginfo-0.5.4-4.4.el5_5.14.i386.rpm poppler-debuginfo-0.5.4-4.4.el5_5.14.x86_64.rpm poppler-utils-0.5.4-4.4.el5_5.14.x86_64.rpm
RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client):
Source:
i386: poppler-debuginfo-0.5.4-4.4.el5_5.14.i386.rpm poppler-devel-0.5.4-4.4.el5_5.14.i386.rpm
x86_64: poppler-debuginfo-0.5.4-4.4.el5_5.14.i386.rpm poppler-debuginfo-0.5.4-4.4.el5_5.14.x86_64.rpm poppler-devel-0.5.4-4.4.el5_5.14.i386.rpm poppler-devel-0.5.4-4.4.el5_5.14.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server):
Source:
i386: poppler-0.5.4-4.4.el5_5.14.i386.rpm poppler-debuginfo-0.5.4-4.4.el5_5.14.i386.rpm poppler-devel-0.5.4-4.4.el5_5.14.i386.rpm poppler-utils-0.5.4-4.4.el5_5.14.i386.rpm
ia64: poppler-0.5.4-4.4.el5_5.14.ia64.rpm poppler-debuginfo-0.5.4-4.4.el5_5.14.ia64.rpm poppler-devel-0.5.4-4.4.el5_5.14.ia64.rpm poppler-utils-0.5.4-4.4.el5_5.14.ia64.rpm
ppc: poppler-0.5.4-4.4.el5_5.14.ppc.rpm poppler-0.5.4-4.4.el5_5.14.ppc64.rpm poppler-debuginfo-0.5.4-4.4.el5_5.14.ppc.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2010:0749-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0749.html
Issue date: 2010-10-07

Topic

Updated poppler packages that fix two security issues are now available forRed Hat Enterprise Linux 5.The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as havingimportant security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) basescores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for eachvulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue Red Hat Denial of Service poppler PDF threat

Relevant Releases Architectures

RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) - i386, ia64, ppc, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

595245 - CVE-2010-3702 xpdf: uninitialized Gfx::parser pointer dereference

638960 - CVE-2010-3704 xpdf: array indexing error in FoFiType1::parse()

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