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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: 3647-1 Moderate: Poppler Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey May 15, 2018
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Investigate the latest enhancements in Ubuntu distributions addressing vulnerabilities found in poppler to mitigate the risk of failures and service disruptions.
poppler could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted PDF.

Summary

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

Software Description:

- poppler: PDF rendering library

Details:

It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled certain PDF files.

An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service.

(CVE-2017-18267)

It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled certain PDF files.

An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. This

issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-10768)

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate software update Ubuntu poppler Denial Of Service PDF rendering

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  libpoppler73                    0.62.0-2ubuntu2.1
  poppler-utils                   0.62.0-2ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 17.10:
  libpoppler68                    0.57.0-2ubuntu4.3
  poppler-utils                   0.57.0-2ubuntu4.3

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  libpoppler58                    0.41.0-0ubuntu1.7
  poppler-utils                   0.41.0-0ubuntu1.7

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  libpoppler44                    0.24.5-2ubuntu4.11
  poppler-utils                   0.24.5-2ubuntu4.11

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

References

 

  CVE-2017-18267, CVE-2018-10768

May 15, 2018

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate software update Ubuntu poppler Denial Of Service PDF rendering

Package Information

  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/0.62.0-2ubuntu2.1
 
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/0.41.0-0ubuntu1.7
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/0.24.5-2ubuntu4.11

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