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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS USN-6915-1 Moderate: Poppler Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey July 24, 2024
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
The Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6915-1 concerns a critical vulnerability in poppler that could lead to denial of service attacks arising from incorrectly formatted PDFs.
poppler could be made to denial of service if it opened a specially crafted PDF.

Summary

poppler could be made to denial of service if it opened a specially crafted PDF.

Software Description:

- poppler: PDF rendering library

Details:

It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled certain malformed PDF.

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

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service software update moderate severity ubuntu poppler pdf rendering

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
  libpoppler134                   24.02.0-1ubuntu9.1
  poppler-utils                   24.02.0-1ubuntu9.1

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
  libpoppler118                   22.02.0-2ubuntu0.5
  poppler-utils                   22.02.0-2ubuntu0.5

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6915-1

CVE-2024-6239

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6915-1

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service software update moderate severity ubuntu poppler pdf rendering

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/24.02.0-1ubuntu9.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/22.02.0-2ubuntu0.5

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