1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-3865-1

USN-3865-1: poppler vulnerabilities

Publication date

22 January 2019

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in poppler.

Releases

Packages

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-2018-20481, CVE-2018-20650)

It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled certain PDF files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2018-20481, CVE-2018-20650)

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 –  0.68.0-0ubuntu1.4
poppler-utils –  0.68.0-0ubuntu1.4
18.04 bionic libpoppler73 –  0.62.0-2ubuntu2.6
poppler-utils –  0.62.0-2ubuntu2.6
16.04 xenial libpoppler58 –  0.41.0-0ubuntu1.11
poppler-utils –  0.41.0-0ubuntu1.11
14.04 trusty libpoppler44 –  0.24.5-2ubuntu4.15
poppler-utils –  0.24.5-2ubuntu4.15

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