[tlbuild] heads-up for another poppler library problem

Nelson H. F. Beebe beebe at math.utah.edu
Thu Apr 12 17:53:25 CEST 2018


This just appeared on the debian-security-announce at lists.debian.org
list, and may be relevant for some of the platforms on which TeX Live
2018 is being built:

>> ...
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>> Debian Security Advisory DSA-4079-2                   security at debian.org
>> https://www.debian.org/security/                     Salvatore Bonaccorso
>> April 12, 2018                        https://www.debian.org/security/faq
>> - -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 
>> Package        : poppler
>> CVE ID         : CVE-2017-9776
>> Debian Bug     : 890826
>> 
>> It was discovered that the poppler upload for the oldstable distribution
>> (jessie), released as DSA-4079-1, did not correctly address
>> CVE-2017-9776 and additionally caused regressions when rendering PDFs
>> embedding JBIG2 streams. Updated packages are now available to correct
>> this issue.
>> 
>> For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed
>> in version 0.26.5-2+deb8u4.
>> 
>> We recommend that you upgrade your poppler packages.
>> 
>> For the detailed security status of poppler please refer to its security
>> tracker page at:
>> 
>>     https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/poppler
>> ...

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