1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-496-2

USN-496-2: poppler vulnerability

Publication date

7 August 2007

Overview

poppler vulnerability

Releases

Details

USN-496-1 fixed a vulnerability in koffice. This update provides the
corresponding updates for poppler, the library used for PDF handling in
Gnome.

Original advisory details:

Derek Noonburg discovered an integer overflow in the Xpdf function
StreamPredictor::StreamPredictor(). By importing a specially crafted PDF
file into KWord, this could be exploited to run arbitrary code with the
user’s privileges.

USN-496-1 fixed a vulnerability in koffice. This update provides the
corresponding updates for poppler, the library used for PDF handling in
Gnome.

Original advisory details:

Derek Noonburg discovered an integer overflow in the Xpdf function
StreamPredictor::StreamPredictor(). By importing a specially crafted PDF
file into KWord, this could be exploited to run arbitrary code with the
user’s privileges.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect 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
7.04 feisty libpoppler1 –  0.5.4-0ubuntu8.1
6.10 edgy libpoppler1 –  0.5.4-0ubuntu4.2
6.06 dapper libpoppler1 –  0.5.1-0ubuntu7.2

Reduce your security exposure

Ubuntu Pro provides ten-year security coverage to 25,000+ packages in Main and Universe repositories, and it is free for up to five machines.

Get Ubuntu Pro

References

Have additional questions?

Talk to a member of the team ›