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Ubuntu: USN-3837-1 (CVE-2018-19060): poppler vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3837-1 (CVE-2018-19060): poppler vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/07/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
12/12/2018
Modified
09/12/2020

Description

An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.71.0. There is a NULL pointer dereference in goo/GooString.h, will lead to denial of service, as demonstrated by utils/pdfdetach.cc not validating a filename of an embedded file before constructing a save path.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libpoppler44
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libpoppler58
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libpoppler73
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libpoppler79
  • ubuntu-upgrade-poppler-utils

References

  • USN-3837-1
  • USN-3837-2
  • CVE-2018-19060

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