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Ubuntu 17.04: USN-3433-1 Moderate: Poppler Denial of Service Issues

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Calendar Grey October 2, 2017
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Ubuntu's USN-3452-1 addresses vulnerabilities in the kernel that may lead to privilege escalation under certain conditions.
poppler could be made to crash if opened a specially crafted file.

Summary

poppler could be made to crash if opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description:

- poppler: PDF rendering library

Details:

It was discovered that Poppler incorrectly handled certain files.

If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a

crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause a denial service.

This issue only affected Ubuntu 17.04. (CVE-2017-14517)

It was discovered that Poppler incorrectly handled certain files.

If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PDF

file, an attacker could cause a denial of service. (CVE-2017-14519)

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Ubuntu update instructions software issue Denial of Service Poppler

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 17.04:
  libpoppler64                    0.48.0-2ubuntu2.2
  poppler-utils                   0.48.0-2ubuntu2.2

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  libpoppler58                    0.41.0-0ubuntu1.3
  poppler-utils                   0.41.0-0ubuntu1.3

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  libpoppler44                    0.24.5-2ubuntu4.6
  poppler-utils                   0.24.5-2ubuntu4.6

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary
changes.

References

  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3433-1

  CVE-2017-14517, CVE-2017-14519

October 02, 2017

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Ubuntu update instructions software issue Denial of Service Poppler

Package Information

  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/0.48.0-2ubuntu2.2
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/0.41.0-0ubuntu1.3
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/0.24.5-2ubuntu4.6

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