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Debian LTS Advisory ([SECURITY] [DLA 1116-1] poppler security update)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

6.8

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

6 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

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.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)