USN-3350-1: poppler vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 17.04
• Ubuntu 16.10
• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM

Packages

• poppler - PDF rendering library

Details

Aleksandar Nikolic discovered that poppler incorrectly handled JPEG 2000
images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted
PDF file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute
arbitrary code with privileges of the user invoking the program.
(CVE-2017-2820)

Jiaqi Peng discovered that the poppler pdfunite tool incorrectly parsed
certain malformed PDF documents. If a user or automated system were tricked
into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause poppler to crash,
resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-7511)

It was discovered that the poppler pdfunite tool incorrectly parsed certain
malformed PDF documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into
opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause poppler to hang,
resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-7515)

It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled JPEG 2000 images. If a
user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an
attacker could cause cause poppler to crash, resulting in a denial of
service. (CVE-2017-9083)

It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled memory when processing
PDF documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a
crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause poppler to consume resources,
resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-9406, CVE-2017-9408)

Alberto Garcia, Francisco Oca, and Suleman Ali discovered that the poppler
pdftocairo tool incorrectly parsed certain malformed PDF documents. If a
user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an
attacker could cause poppler to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2017-9775)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 17.04

• libpoppler-cpp0v5 - 0.48.0-2ubuntu2.1
• libpoppler-glib8 - 0.48.0-2ubuntu2.1
• libpoppler-qt4-4 - 0.48.0-2ubuntu2.1
• libpoppler-qt5-1 - 0.48.0-2ubuntu2.1
• libpoppler64 - 0.48.0-2ubuntu2.1
• poppler-utils - 0.48.0-2ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 16.10

• libpoppler-cpp0v5 - 0.44.0-3ubuntu2.1
• libpoppler-glib8 - 0.44.0-3ubuntu2.1
• libpoppler-qt4-4 - 0.44.0-3ubuntu2.1
• libpoppler-qt5-1 - 0.44.0-3ubuntu2.1
• libpoppler61 - 0.44.0-3ubuntu2.1
• poppler-utils - 0.44.0-3ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 16.04

• libpoppler-cpp0 - 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.2
• libpoppler-glib8 - 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.2
• libpoppler-qt4-4 - 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.2
• libpoppler-qt5-1 - 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.2
• libpoppler58 - 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.2
• poppler-utils - 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 14.04

• libpoppler-cpp0 - 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.5
• libpoppler-glib8 - 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.5
• libpoppler-qt4-4 - 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.5
• libpoppler-qt5-1 - 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.5
• libpoppler44 - 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.5
• poppler-utils - 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.5

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2017-2820
• CVE-2017-7511
• CVE-2017-7515
• CVE-2017-9083
• CVE-2017-9406
• CVE-2017-9408
• CVE-2017-9775