Mageia alert MGASA-2018-0083 (poppler)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2018-0083: Updated poppler packages fix security vulnerability 
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Sun, 14 Jan 2018 17:54:54 +0100
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MGASA-2018-0083 - Updated poppler packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 14 Jan 2018
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0083.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 5
CVE: CVE-2017-1000456

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

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22377
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3517-1/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-1...

SRPMS:
- 5/core/poppler-0.26.5-2.8.mga5