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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS USN-6508-1 Moderate Poppler Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey November 23, 2023
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Several Ubuntu LTS releases contain severe vulnerabilities addressed in poppler. Ensure you update your system to safeguard against threats.
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 malformed PDF

files. If a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a

specially crafted PDF file, a remote attacker could possibly use this

issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04

LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-23804)

It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled certain malformed PDF

files. If a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a

specially crafted PDF file, a remote attacker could possibly use this

issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-37050, CVE-2022-37051,

CVE-2022-37052, CVE-2022-38349)

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security issue software update Ubuntu poppler

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS:
  libpoppler118                   22.02.0-2ubuntu0.3
  poppler-utils                   22.02.0-2ubuntu0.3

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
  libpoppler97                    0.86.1-0ubuntu1.4
  poppler-utils                   0.86.1-0ubuntu1.4

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Available with Ubuntu Pro):
  libpoppler73                    0.62.0-2ubuntu2.14+esm2
  poppler-utils                   0.62.0-2ubuntu2.14+esm2

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Available with Ubuntu Pro):
  libpoppler58                    0.41.0-0ubuntu1.16+esm4
  poppler-utils                   0.41.0-0ubuntu1.16+esm4

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6508-1

CVE-2020-23804, CVE-2022-37050, CVE-2022-37051, CVE-2022-37052,

CVE-2022-38349

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6508-1

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security issue software update Ubuntu poppler

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/22.02.0-2ubuntu0.3
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/0.86.1-0ubuntu1.4

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