qpdf vulnerabilities

7 May 2018

qpdf vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 17.10
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in QPDF.

Software Description

• qpdf - tools for transforming and inspecting PDF files

Details

It was discovered that QPDF incorrectly handled certain malformed files. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause QPDF to crash, resulting in 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 17.10

libqpdf21 - 8.0.2-3~17.10.1

qpdf - 8.0.2-3~17.10.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

libqpdf21 - 8.0.2-3~16.04.1

qpdf - 8.0.2-3~16.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

libqpdf21 - 8.0.2-3~14.04.1

qpdf - 8.0.2-3~14.04.1

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

This update uses a new upstream release, which includes additional bug fixes. In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2015-9252
• CVE-2017-11624
• CVE-2017-11625
• CVE-2017-11626
• CVE-2017-11627
• CVE-2017-12595
• CVE-2017-18183
• CVE-2017-18184
• CVE-2017-18185
• CVE-2017-18186
• CVE-2017-9208
• CVE-2017-9209
• CVE-2017-9210
• CVE-2018-9918