1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-3837-2

USN-3837-2: poppler regression

Publication date

11 December 2018

Overview

USN-3837-1 introduced a regression in poppler.

Releases

Packages

Details

USN-3837-1 fixed vulnerabilities in poppler. A regression was reported
regarding the previous update. This update fixes the problem.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled certain PDF files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2018-16646)

It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled certain PDF files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
(CVE-2018-19149)

USN-3837-1 fixed vulnerabilities in poppler. A regression was reported
regarding the previous update. This update fixes the problem.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled certain PDF files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2018-16646)

It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled certain PDF files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
(CVE-2018-19149)

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
18.10 cosmic libpoppler79 –  0.68.0-0ubuntu1.3
poppler-utils –  0.68.0-0ubuntu1.3
18.04 bionic libpoppler73 –  0.62.0-2ubuntu2.5
poppler-utils –  0.62.0-2ubuntu2.5
16.04 xenial libpoppler58 –  0.41.0-0ubuntu1.10
poppler-utils –  0.41.0-0ubuntu1.10
14.04 trusty libpoppler44 –  0.24.5-2ubuntu4.14
poppler-utils –  0.24.5-2ubuntu4.14

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