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Ubuntu 24.10: USN-7213-1 critical: poppler sensitive information exposure

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Calendar Grey January 16, 2025
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
The poppler library in Ubuntu has vulnerabilities that could cause application crashes or expose sensitive data when processing specially crafted files. Update your system promptly for safety
poppler could be made to crash or expose sensitive information if it opened a specially crafted file.

Summary

poppler could be made to crash or expose sensitive information if it opened

a specially crafted file.

Software Description:

- poppler: PDF rendering library

Details:

It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled memory when opening

certain PDF files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause

denial of service or obtain sensitive information.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Ubuntu information exposure poppler memory handling

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 24.10
   libpoppler140                   24.08.0-1ubuntu0.1
   poppler-utils                   24.08.0-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
   libpoppler134                   24.02.0-1ubuntu9.2
   poppler-utils                   24.02.0-1ubuntu9.2

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
   libpoppler118                   22.02.0-2ubuntu0.6
   poppler-utils                   22.02.0-2ubuntu0.6

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
   libpoppler97                    0.86.1-0ubuntu1.5
   poppler-utils                   0.86.1-0ubuntu1.5

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
   libpoppler73                    0.62.0-2ubuntu2.14+esm4
                                   Available with Ubuntu Pro
   poppler-utils                   0.62.0-2ubuntu2.14+esm4
                                   Available with Ubuntu Pro

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
   libpoppler58                    0.41.0-0ubuntu1.16+esm5
                                   Available with Ubuntu Pro
   poppler-utils                   0.41.0-0ubuntu1.16+esm5
                                   Available with Ubuntu Pro

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

References

  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7213-1

  CVE-2024-56378

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7213-1

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Ubuntu information exposure poppler memory handling

Package Information

  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/24.08.0-1ubuntu0.1
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/24.02.0-1ubuntu9.2
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/22.02.0-2ubuntu0.6
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/0.86.1-0ubuntu1.5

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