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Ubuntu 17.04, 16.04, 14.04 LTS: USN-3440-1 Critical Poppler DoS

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Calendar Grey October 6, 2017
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Multiple vulnerabilities in poppler have been resolved in Ubuntu. Guidance on updating for impacted versions has been issued.
Several security issues were fixed in poppler.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in poppler.

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 of service.

(CVE-2017-14518, CVE-2017-14520, CVE-2017-14617, CVE-2017-14929,

CVE-2017-14975, CVE-2017-14977)

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. This issue

only affected Ubuntu 17.04 and 16.04. (CVE-2017-14926, CVE-2017-14928)

Alberto Garcia, Francisco Oca and Suleman Ali 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-2017-9776)

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical Ubuntu poppler

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 17.04:
  libpoppler64                    0.48.0-2ubuntu2.3
  poppler-utils                   0.48.0-2ubuntu2.3

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  libpoppler58                    0.41.0-0ubuntu1.4
  poppler-utils                   0.41.0-0ubuntu1.4

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  libpoppler44                    0.24.5-2ubuntu4.7
  poppler-utils                   0.24.5-2ubuntu4.7

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

References

  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3440-1

  CVE-2017-14518, CVE-2017-14520, CVE-2017-14617, CVE-2017-14926,

  CVE-2017-14928, CVE-2017-14929, CVE-2017-14975, CVE-2017-14977,

  CVE-2017-9776

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security advisory denial of service critical Ubuntu poppler

Package Information

  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/0.48.0-2ubuntu2.3
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/0.41.0-0ubuntu1.4
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/0.24.5-2ubuntu4.7

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