USN-3837-1: poppler vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 18.10
• Ubuntu 18.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM

Packages

• poppler - PDF rendering library

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-2018-16646, CVE-2018-19058, CVE-2018-19059, CVE-2018-19060)

It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled certain PDF files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
(CVE-2018-19149)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 18.10

• libpoppler79 - 0.68.0-0ubuntu1.2
• poppler-utils - 0.68.0-0ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 18.04

• libpoppler73 - 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.4
• poppler-utils - 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.4

Ubuntu 16.04

• libpoppler58 - 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.9
• poppler-utils - 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.9

Ubuntu 14.04

• libpoppler44 - 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.13
• poppler-utils - 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.13

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2018-16646
• CVE-2018-19058
• CVE-2018-19059
• CVE-2018-19060
• CVE-2018-19149

Related notices

• USN-3837-2: gir1.2-poppler-0.18, libpoppler-cpp-dev, libpoppler-glib8, libpoppler-cpp0v5, libpoppler-qt4-dev, libpoppler-glib-doc, libpoppler58, libpoppler-qt4-4, poppler-utils, libpoppler-private-dev, libpoppler-qt5-1, libpoppler-dev, libpoppler73, libpoppler-qt5-dev, libpoppler-cpp0, poppler, libpoppler79, libpoppler-glib-dev, libpoppler44