USN-3647-1: poppler vulnerabilities

Publication date

15 May 2018

Overview

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


Packages

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)

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)

Update instructions

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

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

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

Ubuntu Release Package Version
18.04 LTS bionic libpoppler73 –  0.62.0-2ubuntu2.1
poppler-utils –  0.62.0-2ubuntu2.1
17.10 artful libpoppler68 –  0.57.0-2ubuntu4.3
poppler-utils –  0.57.0-2ubuntu4.3
16.04 LTS xenial libpoppler58 –  0.41.0-0ubuntu1.7
poppler-utils –  0.41.0-0ubuntu1.7
14.04 LTS trusty libpoppler44 –  0.24.5-2ubuntu4.11
poppler-utils –  0.24.5-2ubuntu4.11

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