Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2719-1 poppler -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:
10 Jul 2013
Affected Packages:
poppler
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 702071.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-1788, CVE-2013-1790.
More information:

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the poppler PDF rendering library.

  • CVE-2013-1788

    Multiple invalid memory access issues, which could potentially lead to arbitrary code execution if the user were tricked into opening a malformed PDF document.

  • CVE-2013-1790

    An uninitialized memory issue, which could potentially lead to arbitrary code execution if the user were tricked into opening a malformed PDF document.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 0.12.4-1.2+squeeze3.

For the stable (wheezy), testing (jessie), and unstable (sid) distributions, these problems have been fixed in version 0.18.4-6.

We recommend that you upgrade your poppler packages.