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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RHSA-2008:0239-01 Urgent Poppler Security Update

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Calendar Grey April 17, 2008
Dist Redhat Esm H88
The latest Red Hat update for Poppler is essential for fixing serious security vulnerabilities in enterprise Linux systems, enhancing stability and performance.
Updated poppler packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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 PDF rendering library, used by applications such as Evince.
Kees Cook discovered a flaw in the way poppler displayed malformed fonts embedded in PDF files. 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-2008-1693)
Users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve this issue.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Enterprise Linux application security important update poppler issue PDF rendering CVE-2008-1693

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-1693 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_1.i386.rpm poppler-debuginfo-0.5.4-4.4.el5_1.i386.rpm poppler-utils-0.5.4-4.4.el5_1.i386.rpm
x86_64: poppler-0.5.4-4.4.el5_1.i386.rpm poppler-0.5.4-4.4.el5_1.x86_64.rpm poppler-debuginfo-0.5.4-4.4.el5_1.i386.rpm poppler-debuginfo-0.5.4-4.4.el5_1.x86_64.rpm poppler-utils-0.5.4-4.4.el5_1.x86_64.rpm
RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client):
Source:
i386: poppler-debuginfo-0.5.4-4.4.el5_1.i386.rpm poppler-devel-0.5.4-4.4.el5_1.i386.rpm
x86_64: poppler-debuginfo-0.5.4-4.4.el5_1.i386.rpm poppler-debuginfo-0.5.4-4.4.el5_1.x86_64.rpm poppler-devel-0.5.4-4.4.el5_1.i386.rpm poppler-devel-0.5.4-4.4.el5_1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server):
Source:
i386: poppler-0.5.4-4.4.el5_1.i386.rpm poppler-debuginfo-0.5.4-4.4.el5_1.i386.rpm poppler-devel-0.5.4-4.4.el5_1.i386.rpm poppler-utils-0.5.4-4.4.el5_1.i386.rpm
ia64: poppler-0.5.4-4.4.el5_1.ia64.rpm poppler-debuginfo-0.5.4-4.4.el5_1.ia64.rpm poppler-devel-0.5.4-4.4.el5_1.ia64.rpm poppler-utils-0.5.4-4.4.el5_1.ia64.rpm
ppc: poppler-0.5.4-4.4.el5_1.ppc.rpm poppler-0.5.4-4.4.el5_1.ppc64.rpm poppler-debuginfo-0.5.4-4.4.el5_1.ppc.rpm poppler-debuginfo-0.5.4-4.4.el5_1.ppc64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2008:0239-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0239.html
Issue date: 2008-04-17

Topic

Updated poppler packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Enterprise Linux application security important update poppler issue PDF rendering CVE-2008-1693

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

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