USN-7471-1: poppler vulnerabilities

Publication date

29 April 2025

Overview

poppler could be made to treat documents with forged signatures as legitimately signed.


Packages

Details

It was discovered that poppler did not properly verify adbe.pkcs7.sha1
signatures in PDF documents. An attacker could possibly use this issue
to create documents with forged signatures that are treated as
legitimately signed.

It was discovered that poppler did not properly verify adbe.pkcs7.sha1
signatures in PDF documents. An attacker could possibly use this issue
to create documents with forged signatures that are treated as
legitimately signed.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
25.04 plucky libpoppler147 –  25.03.0-3ubuntu1
poppler-utils –  25.03.0-3ubuntu1
24.10 oracular libpoppler140 –  24.08.0-1ubuntu0.3
poppler-utils –  24.08.0-1ubuntu0.3
24.04 noble libpoppler134 –  24.02.0-1ubuntu9.4
poppler-utils –  24.02.0-1ubuntu9.4
22.04 jammy libpoppler118 –  22.02.0-2ubuntu0.8
poppler-utils –  22.02.0-2ubuntu0.8
20.04 focal libpoppler97 –  0.86.1-0ubuntu1.7
poppler-utils –  0.86.1-0ubuntu1.7
18.04 bionic libpoppler73 –  0.62.0-2ubuntu2.14+esm6  
poppler-utils –  0.62.0-2ubuntu2.14+esm6  

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