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USN-410-2: teTeX vulnerability

26 January 2007

teTeX vulnerability

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Details

USN-410-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the poppler PDF loader library. This
update provides the corresponding updates for a copy of this code in
tetex-bin in Ubuntu 5.10. Versions of tetex-bin after Ubuntu 5.10 use
poppler directly and do not need a separate update.

Original advisory details:

The poppler PDF loader library did not limit the recursion depth of
the page model tree. By tricking a user into opening a specially
crafter PDF file, this could be exploited to trigger an infinite loop
and eventually crash an application that uses this library.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 5.10
  • tetex-bin - 2.0.2-30ubuntu3.6

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

References

Related notices

  • USN-410-1: kpdf, kword, libpoppler0c2, libpoppler1