[USN-4042-1] poppler vulnerabilities

Marc Deslauriers marc.deslauriers at canonical.com
Thu Jun 27 14:26:23 UTC 2019


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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4042-1
June 27, 2019

poppler vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 19.04
- Ubuntu 18.10
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in poppler.

Software Description:
- poppler: PDF rendering library

Details:

It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled certain files. If a user
or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an
attacker could cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary
code

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 19.04:
  libpoppler85                    0.74.0-0ubuntu1.2
  poppler-utils                   0.74.0-0ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 18.10:
  libpoppler79                    0.68.0-0ubuntu1.7
  poppler-utils                   0.68.0-0ubuntu1.7

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  libpoppler73                    0.62.0-2ubuntu2.9
  poppler-utils                   0.62.0-2ubuntu2.9

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  libpoppler58                    0.41.0-0ubuntu1.14
  poppler-utils                   0.41.0-0ubuntu1.14

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

References:
  https://usn.ubuntu.com/4042-1
  CVE-2017-9865, CVE-2018-18897, CVE-2018-20662, CVE-2019-10018,
  CVE-2019-10019, CVE-2019-10021, CVE-2019-10023, CVE-2019-10872,
  CVE-2019-10873, CVE-2019-12293, CVE-2019-9200, CVE-2019-9631,
  CVE-2019-9903

Package Information:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/0.74.0-0ubuntu1.2
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/0.68.0-0ubuntu1.7
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/0.62.0-2ubuntu2.9
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/0.41.0-0ubuntu1.14

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