poppler vulnerabilities

11 February 2019

poppler vulnerabilities

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

• Ubuntu 18.10
• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in poppler.

Software Description

• poppler - PDF rendering library

Details

It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled certain PDF files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2018-20551, CVE-2019-7310)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 18.10

libpoppler79 - 0.68.0-0ubuntu1.5

poppler-utils - 0.68.0-0ubuntu1.5

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

libpoppler73 - 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.7

poppler-utils - 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.7

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

libpoppler58 - 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.12

poppler-utils - 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.12

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

libpoppler44 - 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.16

poppler-utils - 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.16

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

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

References

• CVE-2018-20551
• CVE-2019-7310