USN-3517-1: poppler vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3517-1

8th January, 2018

poppler vulnerabilities

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

Ubuntu 17.10
Ubuntu 17.04
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Ubuntu 14.04 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 execute arbitrary. (CVE-2017-1000456)

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. This issue only
affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2017-14976)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 17.10:: libpoppler68

0.57.0-2ubuntu4.2; poppler-utils

0.57.0-2ubuntu4.2
Ubuntu 17.04:: libpoppler64

0.48.0-2ubuntu2.5; poppler-utils

0.48.0-2ubuntu2.5
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:: libpoppler58

0.41.0-0ubuntu1.6; poppler-utils

0.41.0-0ubuntu1.6
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:: poppler-utils

0.24.5-2ubuntu4.9; libpoppler44

0.24.5-2ubuntu4.9

To update your system, please follow these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

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

References

CVE-2017-1000456,

CVE-2017-14976

Source: USN-3517-1: poppler vulnerabilities

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