1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-6273-1

USN-6273-1: poppler vulnerabilities

Publication date

3 August 2023

Overview

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

Releases

Packages

Details

Jieyong Ma discovered that poppler incorrectly handled certain malformed
PDF files. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause poppler
to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu
20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-27337)

It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled certain malformed PDF
files. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause poppler to
crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu
22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 23.04. (CVE-2023-34872)

Jieyong Ma discovered that poppler incorrectly handled certain malformed
PDF files. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause poppler
to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu
20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-27337)

It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled certain malformed PDF
files. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause poppler to
crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu
22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 23.04. (CVE-2023-34872)

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
23.04 lunar libpoppler126 –  22.12.0-2ubuntu1.1
22.04 jammy libpoppler118 –  22.02.0-2ubuntu0.2
20.04 focal libpoppler97 –  0.86.1-0ubuntu1.2

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