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Red Hat 7: RHSA-2016:2580-02 Moderate: Heap Overflow in Poppler

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Calendar Grey November 3, 2016
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Red Hat has released an update for poppler that targets several moderate security vulnerabilities and resolves various bugs. Discover further details about this update and its implications.
An update for poppler is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Poppler is a Portable Document Format (PDF) rendering library, used by applications such as Evince.
Security Fix(es):
* A heap-buffer overflow was found in the poppler library. 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-2015-8868)
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate red hat software update heap overflow poppler

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8868 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/7.3_Release_Notes/index.html

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: poppler-0.26.5-16.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: poppler-0.26.5-16.el7.i686.rpm poppler-0.26.5-16.el7.x86_64.rpm poppler-debuginfo-0.26.5-16.el7.i686.rpm poppler-debuginfo-0.26.5-16.el7.x86_64.rpm poppler-glib-0.26.5-16.el7.i686.rpm poppler-glib-0.26.5-16.el7.x86_64.rpm poppler-qt-0.26.5-16.el7.i686.rpm poppler-qt-0.26.5-16.el7.x86_64.rpm poppler-utils-0.26.5-16.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: poppler-cpp-0.26.5-16.el7.i686.rpm poppler-cpp-0.26.5-16.el7.x86_64.rpm poppler-cpp-devel-0.26.5-16.el7.i686.rpm poppler-cpp-devel-0.26.5-16.el7.x86_64.rpm poppler-debuginfo-0.26.5-16.el7.i686.rpm poppler-debuginfo-0.26.5-16.el7.x86_64.rpm poppler-demos-0.26.5-16.el7.x86_64.rpm poppler-devel-0.26.5-16.el7.i686.rpm poppler-devel-0.26.5-16.el7.x86_64.rpm poppler-glib-devel-0.26.5-16.el7.i686.rpm poppler-glib-devel-0.26.5-16.el7.x86_64.rpm poppler-qt-devel-0.26.5-16.el7.i686.rpm poppler-qt-devel-0.26.5-16.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source: poppler-0.26.5-16.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: poppler-0.26.5-16.el7.i686.rpm poppler-0.26.5-16.el7.x86_64.rpm poppler-debuginfo-0.26.5-16.el7.i686.rpm poppler-debuginfo-0.26.5-16.el7.x86_64.rpm poppler-qt-0.26.5-16.el7.i686.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:2580-02
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2580.html
Issue date: 2016-11-03

Topic

An update for poppler is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate red hat software update heap overflow poppler

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - aarch64, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - aarch64, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1298616 - Show at least characters from PDFDocEncoding in editable forms

1326225 - CVE-2015-8868 poppler: heap buffer overflow in ExponentialFunction

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