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<glsa id="201611-15">
  <title>Poppler: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Poppler, the worst of
    which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">poppler</product>
  <announced>2016-11-22</announced>
  <revised count="3">2016-11-22</revised>
  <bug>542220</bug>
  <bug>579752</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-text/poppler" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.42.0</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.42.0</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code base.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Poppler. Please review
      the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted PDF
      using Poppler, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the
      privileges of the process or a Denial of Service condition.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Poppler users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-text/poppler-0.42.0"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2015-8868">
      CVE-2015-8868
    </uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2015-06-06T14:35:30Z">
    BlueKnight
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2016-11-22T11:58:21Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>
