Synopsis

Important: poppler security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

Updated poppler packages that fix several security issues 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 PDF rendering library, used by applications such as evince.

Alin Rad Pop discovered several flaws in the handling of PDF files. An
attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause an application
linked with poppler to crash, or potentially execute arbitrary code when
opened. (CVE-2007-4352, CVE-2007-5392, CVE-2007-5393)

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
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 5.1 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 5.1 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 5.1 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 5.1 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 5.1 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 345101 - CVE-2007-4352 xpdf memory corruption in DCTStream::readProgressiveDataUnit()
• BZ - 345111 - CVE-2007-5392 xpdf buffer overflow in DCTStream::reset()
• BZ - 345121 - CVE-2007-5393 xpdf buffer overflow in CCITTFaxStream::lookChar()

CVEs

• CVE-2007-5393
• CVE-2007-5392
• CVE-2007-4352

References

• http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5

SRPM
x86_64
poppler-devel-0.5.4-4.3.el5_1.i386.rpm	SHA-256: b1d05dc2408243d15e2aac78e55937b232f3e970a4cd5bd543221adfe78b0259
poppler-devel-0.5.4-4.3.el5_1.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 8c202f527e386f39e70b9affc7de7bac1aa16f305559cf7467c86f64323234eb
i386
poppler-devel-0.5.4-4.3.el5_1.i386.rpm	SHA-256: b1d05dc2408243d15e2aac78e55937b232f3e970a4cd5bd543221adfe78b0259

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5

SRPM
x86_64
poppler-devel-0.5.4-4.3.el5_1.i386.rpm	SHA-256: b1d05dc2408243d15e2aac78e55937b232f3e970a4cd5bd543221adfe78b0259
poppler-devel-0.5.4-4.3.el5_1.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 8c202f527e386f39e70b9affc7de7bac1aa16f305559cf7467c86f64323234eb
i386
poppler-devel-0.5.4-4.3.el5_1.i386.rpm	SHA-256: b1d05dc2408243d15e2aac78e55937b232f3e970a4cd5bd543221adfe78b0259

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5

SRPM
x86_64
poppler-devel-0.5.4-4.3.el5_1.i386.rpm	SHA-256: b1d05dc2408243d15e2aac78e55937b232f3e970a4cd5bd543221adfe78b0259
poppler-devel-0.5.4-4.3.el5_1.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 8c202f527e386f39e70b9affc7de7bac1aa16f305559cf7467c86f64323234eb
i386
poppler-devel-0.5.4-4.3.el5_1.i386.rpm	SHA-256: b1d05dc2408243d15e2aac78e55937b232f3e970a4cd5bd543221adfe78b0259