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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1963-1 poppler -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

17 Oct 2019

Affected Packages:

poppler

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-9959, CVE-2019-10871.

More information:

Two buffer allocation issues were identified in poppler.

• CVE-2019-9959

  An unexpected negative length value can cause an integer overflow, which in turn making it possible to allocate a large memory chunk on the heap with size controlled by an attacker.

• CVE-2019-10871

  The RGB data are considered CMYK data and hence it reads 4 bytes instead of 3 bytes at the end of the image. The fixed version defines SPLASH_CMYK which is the upstream recommended solution.

For Debian 8 Jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 0.26.5-2+deb8u12.

We recommend that you upgrade your poppler packages.

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