ELA-302-1 poppler security update

denial-of-service

2020-10-25
Packagepoppler
Version0.26.5-2+deb8u14
Related CVEs CVE-2019-10018 CVE-2019-14494


This update corrects several security vulnerabilites in poppler, a PDF rendering library, a regression introduced by the patch for CVE-2018-13988 (Debian bug #942391), and two flaws which could lead to a denial-of-service.

CVE-2019-10018

Floating point exception in the function PostScriptFunction::exec at
Function.cc

CVE-2019-14494

There is a divide-by-zero error in the function
SplashOutputDev::tilingPatternFill at SplashOutputDev.cc.


For Debian 8 jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 0.26.5-2+deb8u14.

We recommend that you upgrade your poppler packages.

Further information about Extended LTS security advisories can be found in the dedicated section of our website.