Ubuntu Security Notice USN-631-1
28th July, 2008
poppler vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 7.10
Software description
- poppler
Details
Felipe Andres Manzano discovered that poppler did not correctly initialize
certain page widgets. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious
PDF file, a remote attacker could exploit this to crash applications
linked against poppler, leading to a denial of service.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:
- Ubuntu 8.04 LTS:
- libpoppler2 0.6.4-1ubuntu3.1
- Ubuntu 7.10:
- libpoppler2 0.6-0ubuntu2.3
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.