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Red Hat 6: RHSA-2010:0859-03 Important Poppler Update: Application Crash

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Calendar Grey November 10, 2010
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Critical vulnerabilities patched in poppler packages for CentOS 6. Essential update released immediately.
Updated poppler packages that fix three security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at

Summary

Poppler is a Portable Document Format (PDF) rendering library, used by applications such as Evince.
Two uninitialized pointer use flaws were discovered in poppler. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that, when opened, would cause applications that use poppler (such as Evince) to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2010-3702, CVE-2010-3703)
An array index error was found in the way poppler parsed PostScript Type 1 fonts embedded in PDF documents. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that, when opened, would cause applications that use poppler (such as Evince) to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2010-3704)
Users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues.

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Topics Covered

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References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-3702 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-3703 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-3704 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source:
i386: poppler-0.12.4-3.el6_0.1.i686.rpm poppler-debuginfo-0.12.4-3.el6_0.1.i686.rpm poppler-glib-0.12.4-3.el6_0.1.i686.rpm poppler-qt4-0.12.4-3.el6_0.1.i686.rpm poppler-utils-0.12.4-3.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
x86_64: poppler-0.12.4-3.el6_0.1.i686.rpm poppler-0.12.4-3.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm poppler-debuginfo-0.12.4-3.el6_0.1.i686.rpm poppler-debuginfo-0.12.4-3.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm poppler-glib-0.12.4-3.el6_0.1.i686.rpm poppler-glib-0.12.4-3.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm poppler-qt4-0.12.4-3.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm poppler-utils-0.12.4-3.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6):
Source:
i386: poppler-debuginfo-0.12.4-3.el6_0.1.i686.rpm poppler-devel-0.12.4-3.el6_0.1.i686.rpm poppler-glib-devel-0.12.4-3.el6_0.1.i686.rpm poppler-qt-0.12.4-3.el6_0.1.i686.rpm poppler-qt-devel-0.12.4-3.el6_0.1.i686.rpm poppler-qt4-devel-0.12.4-3.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
x86_64: poppler-debuginfo-0.12.4-3.el6_0.1.i686.rpm poppler-debuginfo-0.12.4-3.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm poppler-devel-0.12.4-3.el6_0.1.i686.rpm poppler-devel-0.12.4-3.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm poppler-glib-devel-0.12.4-3.el6_0.1.i686.rpm poppler-glib-devel-0.12.4-3.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm poppler-qt-0.12.4-3.el6_0.1.i686.rpm poppler-qt-0.12.4-3.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm poppler-qt-devel-0.12.4-3.el6_0.1.i686.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2010:0859-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0859.html
Issue date: 2010-11-10

Topic

Updated poppler packages that fix three security issues are now availablefor Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as havingimportant security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) basescores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for eachvulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Red Hat code execution application crash important update poppler

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

595245 - CVE-2010-3702 xpdf: uninitialized Gfx::parser pointer dereference

638960 - CVE-2010-3704 xpdf: array indexing error in FoFiType1::parse()

639356 - CVE-2010-3703 poppler: use of initialized pointer in PostScriptFunction

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