[Secure-testing-team] Bug#863759: poppler: CVE-2017-7511

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: poppler
Version: 0.26.5-2
Severity: normal
Tags: security patch upstream fixed-upstream

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for poppler.

CVE-2017-7511[0]:
| poppler since version 0.17.3 has been vulnerable to NULL pointer
| dereference in pdfunite triggered by specially crafted documents.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-7511
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7511
[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101149
[2] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101153
[3] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=5c9b08a875b07853be6c44e43ff5f7f059df666a

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore