USN-631-1: poppler vulnerability
28 July 2008
poppler vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 7.10
Software Description
- poppler
Details
Felipe Andres Manzano discovered that poppler did not correctly initialize certain page widgets. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious PDF file, a remote attacker could exploit this to crash applications linked against poppler, leading to a denial of service.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
- libpoppler2 - 0.6.4-1ubuntu3.1
- Ubuntu 7.10
- libpoppler2 - 0.6-0ubuntu2.3
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.