Issued:
2009-10-15
Updated:
2009-10-15

RHSA-2009:1504 - Important: poppler security and bug fix update

Synopsis

Important: poppler security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

Updated poppler packages that fix multiple security issues and a bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Description

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

Multiple integer overflow flaws were found in poppler. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause applications that use poppler (such as Evince) to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code when opened. (CVE-2009-3603, CVE-2009-3608, CVE-2009-3609)

Red Hat would like to thank Chris Rohlf for reporting the CVE-2009-3608 issue.

This update also corrects a regression introduced in the previous poppler security update, RHSA-2009:0480, that prevented poppler from rendering certain PDF documents correctly. (BZ#528147)

Users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues.

Solution

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

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support5.4x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support5.4ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support5.4i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian5ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support5.4ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems5s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support5.4s390x
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-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11.src.rpm
  • poppler-devel-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11.x86_64.rpm
  • poppler-utils-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11.ia64.rpm
  • poppler-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11.s390x.rpm
  • poppler-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11.i386.rpm
  • poppler-utils-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11.ppc.rpm
  • poppler-devel-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11.i386.rpm
  • poppler-devel-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11.s390.rpm
  • poppler-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11.ppc.rpm
  • poppler-devel-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11.ppc.rpm
  • poppler-utils-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11.s390x.rpm
  • poppler-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11.x86_64.rpm
  • poppler-utils-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11.x86_64.rpm
  • poppler-devel-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11.s390x.rpm
  • poppler-utils-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11.i386.rpm
  • poppler-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11.ppc64.rpm
  • poppler-devel-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11.ppc64.rpm
  • poppler-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11.ia64.rpm
  • poppler-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11.s390.rpm
  • poppler-devel-0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11.ia64.rpm

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