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Red Hat 5: RHSA-2009:1504-01 Critical Poppler Overflow Exploit

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Calendar Grey October 15, 2009
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Prioritize essential Poppler security patches and bug resolution updates tailored for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, bolstering system reliability and safeguarding against vulnerabilities.
Updated poppler packages that fix multiple security issues and a bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having important security impa...

Solution

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

This update is available via 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.
Multiple integer overflow flaws were found in poppler. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause applications that use poppler (such as Evince) to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code when opened. (CVE-2009-3603, CVE-2009-3608, CVE-2009-3609)
Red Hat would like to thank Chris Rohlf for reporting the CVE-2009-3608 issue.
This update also corrects a regression introduced in the previous poppler security update, RHSA-2009:0480, that prevented poppler from rendering certain PDF documents correctly. (BZ#528147)
Users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat bug fix important overflow PDF poppler

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-3603 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-3608 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-3609 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_4.11.i386.rpm poppler-debuginfo-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11.i386.rpm poppler-utils-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11.i386.rpm
x86_64: poppler-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11.i386.rpm poppler-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11.x86_64.rpm poppler-debuginfo-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11.i386.rpm poppler-debuginfo-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11.x86_64.rpm poppler-utils-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11.x86_64.rpm
RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client):
Source:
i386: poppler-debuginfo-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11.i386.rpm poppler-devel-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11.i386.rpm
x86_64: poppler-debuginfo-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11.i386.rpm poppler-debuginfo-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11.x86_64.rpm poppler-devel-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11.i386.rpm poppler-devel-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server):
Source:
i386: poppler-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11.i386.rpm poppler-debuginfo-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11.i386.rpm poppler-devel-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11.i386.rpm poppler-utils-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11.i386.rpm
ia64: poppler-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11.ia64.rpm poppler-debuginfo-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11.ia64.rpm poppler-devel-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11.ia64.rpm poppler-utils-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11.ia64.rpm
ppc: poppler-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11.ppc.rpm poppler-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11.ppc64.rpm poppler-debuginfo-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11.ppc.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2009:1504-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:1504.html
Issue date: 2009-10-15

Topic

Updated poppler packages that fix multiple security issues and a bug arenow available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.This update has been rated as having important security impact by the RedHat Security Response Team.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat bug fix important overflow PDF poppler

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

526637 - CVE-2009-3608 xpdf/poppler: integer overflow in ObjectStream::ObjectStream (oCERT-2009-016)

526893 - CVE-2009-3609 xpdf/poppler: ImageStream::ImageStream integer overflow

526915 - CVE-2009-3603 xpdf/poppler: SplashBitmap::SplashBitmap integer overflow

528147 - latest poppler security fix breaks compatibility with Xerox WorkCentre generated pdf documents

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