NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting poppler-cpp package, versions <0:0.26.5-38.amzn2


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.74% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2-POPPLERCPP-1675135
  • published27 Sept 2021
  • disclosed7 Nov 2018

Introduced: 7 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-19060  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 poppler-cpp to version 0:0.26.5-38.amzn2 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2019-1332.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream poppler-cpp package and not the poppler-cpp package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.71.0. There is a NULL pointer dereference in goo/GooString.h, will lead to denial of service, as demonstrated by utils/pdfdetach.cc not validating a filename of an embedded file before constructing a save path.