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: http://ift.tt/17VXqjU.

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

References

CVE-2017-1000456, CVE-2017-14976

from Ubuntu Security Notices http://ift.tt/2COkIyp