Synopsis
Moderate: poppler security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Moderate
Topic
An update for poppler, evince, and okular is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description
Poppler is a Portable Document Format (PDF) rendering library, used by applications such as Evince or Okular.
Security Fix(es):
- poppler: heap-based buffer over-read in XRef::getEntry in XRef.cc (CVE-2019-7310)
- poppler: heap-based buffer overflow in function ImageStream::getLine() in Stream.cc (CVE-2019-9200)
- poppler: infinite recursion in Parser::getObj function in Parser.cc (CVE-2018-16646)
- poppler: memory leak in GfxColorSpace::setDisplayProfile in GfxState.cc (CVE-2018-18897)
- poppler: reachable abort in Object.h (CVE-2018-19058)
- poppler: out-of-bounds read in EmbFile::save2 in FileSpec.cc (CVE-2018-19059)
- poppler: pdfdetach utility does not validate save paths (CVE-2018-19060)
- poppler: NULL pointer dereference in _poppler_attachment_new (CVE-2018-19149)
- poppler: NULL pointer dereference in the XRef::getEntry in XRef.cc (CVE-2018-20481)
- poppler: reachable Object::dictLookup assertion in FileSpec class in FileSpec.cc (CVE-2018-20650)
- poppler: SIGABRT PDFDoc::setup class in PDFDoc.cc (CVE-2018-20662)
- poppler: heap-based buffer over-read in function downsample_row_box_filter in CairoRescaleBox.cc (CVE-2019-9631)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.
Solution
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
Affected Products
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
Fixes
- BZ - 1378075 - Evince is not showing comments in document
- BZ - 1378961 - Error displaying PDF in Evince
- BZ - 1458037 - [RFE] okular should also display the FontName (after font path)
- BZ - 1541358 - [RFE] Evince does not read PDF file PrintScaling scaling tags
- BZ - 1626618 - CVE-2018-16646 poppler: infinite recursion in Parser::getObj function in Parser.cc
- BZ - 1639595 - [RFE] provide fontname for used fonts
- BZ - 1646546 - CVE-2018-18897 poppler: memory leak in GfxColorSpace::setDisplayProfile in GfxState.cc
- BZ - 1649435 - CVE-2018-19058 poppler: reachable abort in Object.h
- BZ - 1649440 - CVE-2018-19059 poppler: out-of-bounds read in EmbFile::save2 in FileSpec.cc
- BZ - 1649450 - CVE-2018-19060 poppler: pdfdetach utility does not validate save paths
- BZ - 1649457 - CVE-2018-19149 poppler: NULL pointer dereference in _poppler_attachment_new
- BZ - 1658304 - Export PrintScaling preference
- BZ - 1665263 - CVE-2018-20650 poppler: reachable Object::dictLookup assertion in FileSpec class in FileSpec.cc
- BZ - 1665266 - CVE-2018-20481 poppler: NULL pointer dereference in the XRef::getEntry in XRef.cc
- BZ - 1665273 - CVE-2018-20662 poppler: SIGABRT PDFDoc::setup class in PDFDoc.cc
- BZ - 1672419 - CVE-2019-7310 poppler: heap-based buffer over-read in XRef::getEntry in XRef.cc
- BZ - 1683632 - CVE-2019-9200 poppler: heap-based buffer overflow in function ImageStream::getLine() in Stream.cc
- BZ - 1686802 - CVE-2019-9631 poppler: heap-based buffer over-read in function downsample_row_box_filter in CairoRescaleBox.cc
CVEs
References
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