USN-850-1: poppler vulnerabilities
21 October 2009
poppler vulnerabilities
Releases
Packages
- poppler -
Details
It was discovered that poppler contained multiple security issues when
parsing malformed PDF documents. 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.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 9.04
Ubuntu 8.10
Ubuntu 8.04
Ubuntu 6.06
In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.