Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 18.10 : poppler vulnerabilities (USN-3837-1)
Medium Nessus Plugin ID 119458
Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
Description
It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled certain PDF files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2018-16646, CVE-2018-19058, CVE-2018-19059, CVE-2018-19060)
It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled certain PDF files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-19149).
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected packages.