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Debian LTS Advisory ([SECURITY] [DLA 1116-1] poppler security update)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
It was discovered that poppler, a PDF rendering library, was affected by several denial-of-service (application crash), null pointer dereferences and memory corruption bugs: CVE-2017-14517 NULL Pointer Dereference in the XRef::parseEntry() function in XRef.cc CVE-2017-14519 Memory corruption occurs in a call to Object::streamGetChar that may lead to a denial of service or other unspecified impact. CVE-2017-14617 Potential buffer overflow in the ImageStream class in Stream.cc, which may lead to a denial of service or other unspecified impact.
Affected Software
Affected Software
poppler on Debian Linux
Detection Method
Detection Method
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
Solution
Solution
For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 0.18.4-6+deb7u3. We recommend that you upgrade your poppler packages.