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Red Hat: RHSA-2009:0480-01 Critical: Poppler Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey May 13, 2009
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Updated poppler packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the ...

Solution

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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-2009-0147, CVE-2009-1179, CVE-2009-1187, CVE-2009-1188)
Multiple buffer overflow flaws were found in poppler's JBIG2 decoder. 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-2009-0146, CVE-2009-1182)
Multiple flaws were found in poppler's JBIG2 decoder that could lead to the freeing of arbitrary memory. 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-2009-0166, CVE-2009-1180)
Multiple input validation flaws were found in poppler's JBIG2 decoder. 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-2009-0800)
Multiple denial of service flaws were found in poppler's JBIG2 decoder. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause applications that use poppler (such as Evince) to crash when opened. (CVE-2009-0799, CVE-2009-1181, CVE-2009-1183)
Red Hat would like to thank Braden Thomas and Drew Yao of the Apple Product Security team, and Will Dormann of the CERT/CC for responsibly reporting these flaws.
Users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues.

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0146 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0147 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0166 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0195 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0799 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0800 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1179 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1180 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1181 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1182 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1183 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1187 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1188 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_3.9.i386.rpm poppler-debuginfo-0.5.4-4.4.el5_3.9.i386.rpm poppler-utils-0.5.4-4.4.el5_3.9.i386.rpm
x86_64: poppler-0.5.4-4.4.el5_3.9.i386.rpm poppler-0.5.4-4.4.el5_3.9.x86_64.rpm poppler-debuginfo-0.5.4-4.4.el5_3.9.i386.rpm poppler-debuginfo-0.5.4-4.4.el5_3.9.x86_64.rpm poppler-utils-0.5.4-4.4.el5_3.9.x86_64.rpm
RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client):
Source:
i386: poppler-debuginfo-0.5.4-4.4.el5_3.9.i386.rpm poppler-devel-0.5.4-4.4.el5_3.9.i386.rpm
x86_64: poppler-debuginfo-0.5.4-4.4.el5_3.9.i386.rpm poppler-debuginfo-0.5.4-4.4.el5_3.9.x86_64.rpm poppler-devel-0.5.4-4.4.el5_3.9.i386.rpm poppler-devel-0.5.4-4.4.el5_3.9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server):
Source:
i386: poppler-0.5.4-4.4.el5_3.9.i386.rpm poppler-debuginfo-0.5.4-4.4.el5_3.9.i386.rpm poppler-devel-0.5.4-4.4.el5_3.9.i386.rpm poppler-utils-0.5.4-4.4.el5_3.9.i386.rpm
ia64: poppler-0.5.4-4.4.el5_3.9.ia64.rpm poppler-debuginfo-0.5.4-4.4.el5_3.9.ia64.rpm poppler-devel-0.5.4-4.4.el5_3.9.ia64.rpm poppler-utils-0.5.4-4.4.el5_3.9.ia64.rpm
ppc: poppler-0.5.4-4.4.el5_3.9.ppc.rpm poppler-0.5.4-4.4.el5_3.9.ppc64.rpm poppler-debuginfo-0.5.4-4.4.el5_3.9.ppc.rpm poppler-debuginfo-0.5.4-4.4.el5_3.9.ppc64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2009:0480-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2009-05-13

Topic

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

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

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

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

Bugs Fixed

490612 - CVE-2009-0146 xpdf: Multiple buffer overflows in JBIG2 decoder (setBitmap, readSymbolDictSeg) (CVE-2009-0195)

490614 - CVE-2009-0147 xpdf: Multiple integer overflows in JBIG2 decoder

490625 - CVE-2009-0166 xpdf: Freeing of potentially uninitialized memory in JBIG2 decoder

495886 - CVE-2009-0799 PDF JBIG2 decoder OOB read

495887 - CVE-2009-0800 PDF JBIG2 multiple input validation flaws

495889 - CVE-2009-1179 PDF JBIG2 integer overflow

495892 - CVE-2009-1180 PDF JBIG2 invalid free()

495894 - CVE-2009-1181 PDF JBIG2 NULL dereference

495896 - CVE-2009-1182 PDF JBIG2 MMR decoder buffer overflows

495899 - CVE-2009-1183 PDF JBIG2 MMR infinite loop DoS

495906 - CVE-2009-1187 poppler CairoOutputDev integer overflow

495907 - CVE-2009-1188 poppler SplashBitmap integer overflow

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