1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-1005-1

USN-1005-1: poppler vulnerabilities

Publication date

19 October 2010

Overview

Releases

Packages

Details

It was discovered that poppler contained multiple security issues when
parsing malformed PDF documents. If a user or automated system were tricked
into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause a denial of
service or execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user invoking the
program.

It was discovered that poppler contained multiple security issues when
parsing malformed PDF documents. If a user or automated system were tricked
into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause a denial of
service or execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user invoking the
program.

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
9.10 karmic libpoppler-glib4 –  0.12.0-0ubuntu2.3
libpoppler5 –  0.12.0-0ubuntu2.3
9.04 jaunty libpoppler-glib4 –  0.10.5-1ubuntu2.6
libpoppler4 –  0.10.5-1ubuntu2.6
8.04 hardy libpoppler2 –  0.6.4-1ubuntu3.5
libpoppler-glib2 –  0.6.4-1ubuntu3.5
6.06 dapper libpoppler1 –  0.5.1-0ubuntu7.8
libpoppler1-glib –  0.5.1-0ubuntu7.8
10.10 maverick libpoppler-glib5 –  0.14.3-0ubuntu1.1
libpoppler7 –  0.14.3-0ubuntu1.1
10.04 lucid libpoppler-glib4 –  0.12.4-0ubuntu5.1
libpoppler5 –  0.12.4-0ubuntu5.1

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