MGASA-2018-0083

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    MGASA-2018-0083

    Published: 14 Jan 2018Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary: Updated poppler packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: freedesktop.org libpoppler 0.60.1 fails to validate boundaries in TextPool::addWord, leading to overflow in subsequent calculations (CVE-2017-1000456).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0083.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22377, https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3517-1/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: poppler

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/poppler?arch=source&distro=mageia-5

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.26.5-2.8.mga5

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    User Interaction
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    Integrity
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