USN-496-2: poppler vulnerability

7 August 2007

poppler vulnerability

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.

Learn more about Ubuntu Pro

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.

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.

Learn more about Ubuntu Pro

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 7.04
  • libpoppler1 - 0.5.4-0ubuntu8.1
Ubuntu 6.10
  • libpoppler1 - 0.5.4-0ubuntu4.2
Ubuntu 6.06
  • libpoppler1 - 0.5.1-0ubuntu7.2

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

References

Related notices

Join the discussion

Need help with your security needs?

Ubuntu Pro provides up to ten-year security coverage for over 23,000 open-source packages within the Ubuntu Main and Universe repositories.

Talk to an expert to find out what would work best for you

Further reading