Issued:
2012-02-20
Updated:
2012-02-20

RHBA-2012:0236 - poppler bug fix update

Synopsis

poppler bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated poppler packages that fix several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

Poppler is a Portable Document Format (PDF) rendering library used by applications such as Evince.

This update fixes the following bugs:

  • When working with a PDF document with text spanning multiple columns, text selection may not have followed the flow of the text. This update improves the text selection to respect the text flow. (BZ#467285)

  • A regression was introduced in the previous security update, RHSA-2009:0480, that prevented poppler from rendering PDFs which contained arithmetically encoded JBIG2 images with an unknown length. Specifically, poppler was unable to render PDFs generated by a Xerox WorkCentre 7232 scanner. With this update, such PDFs render correctly, as expected. (BZ#501716)

  • Previously, poppler was unable to open some PDF files created with Adobe Acrobat due to incorrect determination of the position in the JBIG2 stream. With this update, such PDFs open correctly. (BZ#525311)

  • Due to an error in memory allocation, previous versions of poppler may have terminated unexpectedly while rendering certain PDF documents. With this update, the underlying source code has been modified to address this issue, and poppler no longer fails to render such PDF documents. (BZ#598945)

  • Previously, poppler was unable to open some PDF files due to unsupported security feature and the file opening failed with the following error:

    Error: Unsupported version/revision (4/4) of Standard security handler Error: Incorrect password

With this update, the underlying source code has been modified and such PDF files open as expected. (BZ#637124)

  • Prior to this update, certain PDF documents may have been rendered with some characters displayed backwards. With this update, an upstream patch has been applied to ensure that poppler takes into account the horizontal scaling when updating the font, and such PDF documents are now rendered correctly. (BZ#698052)

All users of poppler are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

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 This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian5ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems5s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5i386

Updated Packages

  • poppler-devel-0.5.4-19.el5.ppc.rpm
  • poppler-0.5.4-19.el5.i386.rpm
  • poppler-utils-0.5.4-19.el5.s390x.rpm
  • poppler-0.5.4-19.el5.s390x.rpm
  • poppler-0.5.4-19.el5.ia64.rpm
  • poppler-devel-0.5.4-19.el5.s390.rpm
  • poppler-0.5.4-19.el5.src.rpm
  • poppler-0.5.4-19.el5.ppc64.rpm
  • poppler-utils-0.5.4-19.el5.ia64.rpm
  • poppler-devel-0.5.4-19.el5.s390x.rpm
  • poppler-0.5.4-19.el5.s390.rpm
  • poppler-0.5.4-19.el5.ppc.rpm
  • poppler-devel-0.5.4-19.el5.ppc64.rpm
  • poppler-devel-0.5.4-19.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • poppler-utils-0.5.4-19.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • poppler-utils-0.5.4-19.el5.ppc.rpm
  • poppler-0.5.4-19.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • poppler-devel-0.5.4-19.el5.i386.rpm
  • poppler-devel-0.5.4-19.el5.ia64.rpm
  • poppler-utils-0.5.4-19.el5.i386.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information