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Ubuntu: USN-3865-1 (CVE-2018-20650): poppler vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3865-1 (CVE-2018-20650): poppler vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/01/2019
Created
03/19/2019
Added
01/31/2019
Modified
03/02/2020

Description

A reachable Object::dictLookup assertion in Poppler 0.72.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service due to the lack of a check for the dict data type, as demonstrated by use of the FileSpec class (in FileSpec.cc) in pdfdetach.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libpoppler44
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libpoppler58
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libpoppler73
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libpoppler79
  • ubuntu-upgrade-poppler-utils

References

  • USN-3865-1
  • CVE-2018-20650

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