Poppler: Multiple vulnerabilities

Poppler: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Poppler, the worst of which could allow a Denial of Service. poppler 2018-04-08 2018-04-08 644388 645868 remote 0.61.1 0.61.1

Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code base.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Poppler. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

A remote attacker, by enticing a user to open a specially crafted PDF, could cause a Denial of Service condition or have other unspecified impacts.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Poppler users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-text/poppler-0.61.1"

CVE-2017-1000456 CVE-2017-14975 CVE-2017-14976 CVE-2017-14977 b-man b-man