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Ubuntu: USN-3517-1 (CVE-2017-1000456): poppler vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3517-1 (CVE-2017-1000456): poppler vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/02/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/09/2018
Modified
05/03/2019

Description

freedesktop.org libpoppler 0.60.1 fails to validate boundaries in TextPool::addWord, leading to overflow in subsequent calculations.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libpoppler44
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libpoppler58
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libpoppler64
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libpoppler68
  • ubuntu-upgrade-poppler-utils

References

  • USN-3517-1
  • DSA-4097
  • CVE-2017-1000456

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