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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1562-2 poppler -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

30 Nov 2018

Affected Packages:

poppler

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-16646.

More information:

A regression issue has been resolved in the poppler PDF rendering shared library introduced with version 0.26.5-2+deb8u5.

• CVE-2018-16646

  In Poppler 0.68.0, the Parser::getObj() function in Parser.cc may cause infinite recursion via a crafted file. A remote attacker can leverage this for a DoS attack.

  The previous solution in Debian LTS fixed the above issue in XRef.cc, the patches had been obtained from a merge request (#67) on upstream's Git development platform. Unfortunately, this merge request was declined by upstream and another merge request (#91) got applied instead. The fix now directly occurs in the Parser.cc file.

  This version of poppler now ships the changeset that got favorized by the poppler upstream developers (MR #91) and drops the patches from MR #67.

For Debian 8 Jessie, this problem has been fixed in version 0.26.5-2+deb8u6.

We recommend that you upgrade your poppler packages.

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