Ubuntu Security Notice USN-542-1
13th November, 2007
poppler vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 7.10
- Ubuntu 7.04
- Ubuntu 6.10
- Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
Software description
- 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 version:
- 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 LTS:
- libpoppler1 0.5.1-0ubuntu7.3
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system upgrade you need to restart your session to effect
the necessary changes.