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Ubuntu 18.04 USN-3757-1 Moderate: Poppler Denial Of Service Exposure

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Calendar Grey August 29, 2018
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Important patch released for Ubuntu remedying poppler security flaw resulting in service disruption. Safeguard your device immediately!
poppler could be made to crash if it received specially crafted PDF file.

Summary

poppler could be made to crash if it received specially crafted

PDF file.

Software Description:

- poppler: PDF rendering library

Details:

Hosein Askari discovered that poppler incorrectly handled certain PDF

files. An attacker could possible use this issue to cause a denial of

service.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service ubuntu poppler pdf rendering

Update Instructions

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

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

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  libpoppler58                    0.41.0-0ubuntu1.8
  poppler-utils                   0.41.0-0ubuntu1.8

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  libpoppler44                    0.24.5-2ubuntu4.12
  poppler-utils                   0.24.5-2ubuntu4.12

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

References

 

  CVE-2018-13988

August 29, 2018

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service ubuntu poppler pdf rendering

Package Information

  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/0.62.0-2ubuntu2.2
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/0.41.0-0ubuntu1.8
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/0.24.5-2ubuntu4.12

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