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-2018-16646, CVE-2018-19058, CVE-2018-19059, CVE-2018-19060)
It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled certain PDF files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-19149)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu 18.10
- libpoppler79 - 0.68.0-0ubuntu1.2
- poppler-utils - 0.68.0-0ubuntu1.2
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- libpoppler73 - 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.4
- poppler-utils - 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.4
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- libpoppler58 - 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.9
- poppler-utils - 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.9
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- libpoppler44 - 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.13
- poppler-utils - 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.13
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.