Ubuntu Security Notices
USN-3647-1

USN-3647-1: poppler vulnerabilities

Publication date

15 May 2018

Overview

poppler could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted PDF.

Releases

18.04 LTS 17.10 16.04 LTS 14.04 LTS

Packages

poppler - PDF rendering library

Details

It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled certain PDF files.
An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2017-18267)

It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled certain PDF files.
An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. This
issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-10768)

It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled certain PDF files.
An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2017-18267)

It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled certain PDF files.
An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. This
issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-10768)

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
18.04 bionic	libpoppler73 – 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.1
18.04 bionic	poppler-utils – 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.1
17.10 artful	libpoppler68 – 0.57.0-2ubuntu4.3
17.10 artful	poppler-utils – 0.57.0-2ubuntu4.3
16.04 xenial	libpoppler58 – 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.7
16.04 xenial	poppler-utils – 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.7
14.04 trusty	libpoppler44 – 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.11
14.04 trusty	poppler-utils – 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.11

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USN-3647-1: poppler vulnerabilities

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