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USN-759-1: poppler vulnerabilities

16 April 2009

poppler vulnerabilities

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Will Dormann, Alin Rad Pop, Braden Thomas, and Drew Yao discovered that
poppler contained multiple security issues in its JBIG2 decoder. If a user
or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an
attacker could cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code with
privileges of the user invoking the program.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 8.10
Ubuntu 8.04
Ubuntu 6.06

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

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