Poppler: Multiple vulnerabilities — GLSA 201904-04

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Poppler, the worst of which could allow a Denial of Service.

Affected packages

app-text/poppler on all architectures
Affected versions < 0.70.0
Unaffected versions >= 0.70.0

Background

Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code base.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Poppler. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Poppler users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-text/poppler-0.70.0"
 

References

Release date
April 02, 2019

Latest revision
April 02, 2019: 1

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

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