USN-631-1: poppler vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 8.04
• Ubuntu 7.10

Packages

• poppler -

Details

Felipe Andres Manzano discovered that poppler did not correctly initialize
certain page widgets. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious
PDF file, a remote attacker could exploit this to crash applications
linked against poppler, leading to a denial of service.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 8.04

• libpoppler2 - 0.6.4-1ubuntu3.1

Ubuntu 7.10

• libpoppler2 - 0.6-0ubuntu2.3

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

References

• CVE-2008-2950