USN-542-1: poppler vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 7.10
• Ubuntu 7.04
• Ubuntu 6.10
• Ubuntu 6.06

Packages

• poppler -

Details

Secunia Research discovered several vulnerabilities in poppler. If a
user were tricked into loading a specially crafted PDF file, a remote
attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary
code with the user's privileges in applications linked against poppler.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 7.10

• libpoppler2 - 0.6-0ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 7.04

• libpoppler1 - 0.5.4-0ubuntu8.2

Ubuntu 6.10

• libpoppler1 - 0.5.4-0ubuntu4.3

Ubuntu 6.06

• libpoppler1 - 0.5.1-0ubuntu7.3

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart your session to effect
the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2007-5392
• CVE-2007-4352
• CVE-2007-5393

Related notices

• USN-542-2: koffice, kword