Ubuntu Security Notices
USN-5606-1

USN-5606-1: poppler vulnerability

Publication date

12 September 2022

Overview

poppler could be made to crash or execute arbitrary code if received a specially crafted PDF.

Releases

22.04 LTS 20.04 LTS 18.04 LTS 16.04 LTS

Packages

poppler - PDF rendering library

Details

It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled certain
PDF. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a
denial of service or execute arbitrary code.

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
22.04 jammy	poppler-utils – 22.02.0-2ubuntu0.1
22.04 jammy	libpoppler118 – 22.02.0-2ubuntu0.1
20.04 focal	libpoppler97 – 0.86.1-0ubuntu1.1
20.04 focal	poppler-utils – 0.86.1-0ubuntu1.1
18.04 bionic	libpoppler73 – 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.13
18.04 bionic	poppler-utils – 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.13
16.04 xenial	libpoppler58 – 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.16+esm1
16.04 xenial	poppler-utils – 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.16+esm1

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References

CVE-2022-38784

CVE-2022-38784