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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3563-1 poppler -- security update

Date Reported:

01 May 2016

Affected Packages:

poppler

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-8868.

More information:

It was discovered that a heap overflow in the Poppler PDF library may result in denial of service and potentially the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed PDF file is opened.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 0.26.5-2+deb8u1.

For the testing distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.38.0-3.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.38.0-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your poppler packages.