USN-6273-1: poppler vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 23.04
• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Packages

• poppler - PDF rendering library

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)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 23.04

• libpoppler126 - 22.12.0-2ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 22.04

• libpoppler118 - 22.02.0-2ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 20.04

• libpoppler97 - 0.86.1-0ubuntu1.2

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

References

• CVE-2022-27337
• CVE-2023-34872