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Ubuntu: USN-2958-1 (CVE-2015-8868): poppler vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-2958-1 (CVE-2015-8868): poppler vulnerabilities

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
05/02/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/02/2016
Modified
04/25/2018

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the ExponentialFunction::ExponentialFunction function in Poppler before 0.40.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via an invalid blend mode in the ExtGState dictionary in a crafted PDF document.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libpoppler-cpp0
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libpoppler-glib8
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libpoppler-qt4-3
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libpoppler-qt4-4
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libpoppler-qt5-1
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libpoppler19
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libpoppler44
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libpoppler52
  • ubuntu-upgrade-poppler-utils

References

  • USN-2958-1
  • RHSA-2016:2580
  • DLA-446-1
  • DSA-3563
  • 89324
  • GLSA-201611-15
  • CVE-2015-8868
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