Summary
Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-631-1
Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
Felipe Andres Manzano discovered that poppler did not correctly initialize certain page widgets. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious PDF file, a remote attacker could exploit this to crash applications linked against poppler, leading to a denial of service.
Affected
poppler vulnerability on Ubuntu 7.10 ,
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2008-2950 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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