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=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-850-1 October 21, 2009 poppler vulnerabilities CVE-2009-0755, CVE-2009-3603, CVE-2009-3604, CVE-2009-3605, CVE-2009-3607, CVE-2009-3608, CVE-2009-3609 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Ubuntu 8.10 Ubuntu 9.04 This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu. The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS: libpoppler1 0.5.1-0ubuntu7.6 libpoppler1-glib 0.5.1-0ubuntu7.6 Ubuntu 8.04 LTS: libpoppler-glib2 0.6.4-1ubuntu3.3 libpoppler2 0.6.4-1ubuntu3.3 Ubuntu 8.10: libpoppler-glib3 0.8.7-1ubuntu0.4 libpoppler3 0.8.7-1ubuntu0.4 Ubuntu 9.04: libpoppler-glib4 0.10.5-1ubuntu2.4 libpoppler4 0.10.5-1ubuntu2.4 In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: 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.