Poppler: Multiple vulnerabilities

Poppler: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Poppler, the worst of which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. poppler 2016-11-22 2016-11-22 542220 579752 remote 0.42.0 0.42.0

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 could entice a user to open a specially crafted PDF using Poppler, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or a Denial of Service condition.

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-0.42.0"

CVE-2015-8868 BlueKnight b-man