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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.