USN-850-3 -- poppler vulnerabilitiesID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:700323 | Date: (C)2011-05-13 (M)2024-01-02 |
Class: PATCH | Family: unix |
USN-850-1 fixed vulnerabilities in poppler. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 9.10. Original advisory details: It was discovered that poppler contained multiple security issues when parsing malformed PDF documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user invoking the program.