poppler 0.10.5-1ubuntu2.4 regression since -1ubuntu2.2
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Poppler |
Unknown
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High
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poppler (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Marc Deslauriers |
Bug Description
After the poppler 0.10.5-1ubuntu2.4 security update on 20 Oct 2009 (USN-850-1), Okular segfaults on certain PDF files. If poppler is rebuilt without the three patches introduced by the security update (30_security_
I have not tested the Karmic version, but I will if I can find the time. The mentioned patches were not introduced to Karmic, though, as it uses a different upstream version, so I suspect it does not suffer from the same problem.
By the way: Should this be marked as a security bug to notify the right people, since a security-related patch introduced the bug?
Ubuntu version: Jaunty
CVE References
Changed in poppler (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur) |
Changed in poppler: | |
status: | Unknown → Invalid |
Changed in poppler: | |
status: | Invalid → Unknown |
Changed in poppler: | |
importance: | Unknown → High |
Two things I forgot:
- Evince behaves correctly both with and without the poppler patch. Are there perhaps Qt-specific parts of the patches?
- If I can find the time, I'll try to reproduce the crash with a different PDF file. The current one is my master thesis, which I'd rather not share with the world in its current state.