USN-3837-2: poppler regression

Releases

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

Packages

• poppler - PDF rendering library

Details

USN-3837-1 fixed vulnerabilities in poppler. A regression was reported
regarding the previous update. This update fixes the problem.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Original advisory 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)

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 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 - 0.68.0-0ubuntu1.3
• poppler-utils - 0.68.0-0ubuntu1.3

Ubuntu 18.04

• libpoppler73 - 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.5
• poppler-utils - 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.5

Ubuntu 16.04

• libpoppler58 - 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.10
• poppler-utils - 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.10

Ubuntu 14.04

• libpoppler44 - 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.14
• poppler-utils - 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.14

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

References

• CVE-2018-16646
• CVE-2018-19149

Related notices

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