USN-4042-1: poppler vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 19.04
• Ubuntu 18.10
• Ubuntu 18.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM

Packages

• poppler - PDF rendering library

Details

It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled certain files. If a user
or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an
attacker could cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary
code

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 19.04

• libpoppler85 - 0.74.0-0ubuntu1.2
• poppler-utils - 0.74.0-0ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 18.10

• libpoppler79 - 0.68.0-0ubuntu1.7
• poppler-utils - 0.68.0-0ubuntu1.7

Ubuntu 18.04

• libpoppler73 - 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.9
• poppler-utils - 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.9

Ubuntu 16.04

• libpoppler58 - 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.14
• poppler-utils - 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.14

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2017-9865
• CVE-2018-18897
• CVE-2018-20662
• CVE-2019-10018
• CVE-2019-10019
• CVE-2019-10021
• CVE-2019-10023
• CVE-2019-10872
• CVE-2019-10873
• CVE-2019-12293
• CVE-2019-9200
• CVE-2019-9631
• CVE-2019-9903

Related notices

• USN-3905-1: libpoppler-private-dev, libpoppler-qt4-4, libpoppler-glib-doc, libpoppler-qt5-dev, libpoppler44, poppler, libpoppler73, libpoppler-qt4-dev, libpoppler-glib8, libpoppler-glib-dev, gir1.2-poppler-0.18, poppler-utils, libpoppler-cpp-dev, libpoppler-dev, libpoppler-qt5-1, libpoppler58, libpoppler-cpp0, libpoppler-cpp0v5, libpoppler79