Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
It was discovered that poppler contained multiple security issues when parsing malformed PDF documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user invoking the program.
Affected
poppler on Ubuntu 12.10 ,
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ,
Ubuntu 11.10 ,
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS ,
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2013-1788, CVE-2013-1789, CVE-2013-1790 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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