NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting poppler-glib-devel package, versions <0:0.26.5-20.amzn2
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- published27 Sept 2021
- disclosed6 May 2018
Introduced: 6 May 2018
CVE-2018-10768 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 poppler-glib-devel to version 0:0.26.5-20.amzn2 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2019-1217.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream poppler-glib-devel package and not the poppler-glib-devel package as distributed by Amazon-Linux.
See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.
There is a NULL pointer dereference in the AnnotPath::getCoordsLength function in Annot.h in an Ubuntu package for Poppler 0.24.5. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack. Later Ubuntu packages such as for Poppler 0.41.0 are not affected.
References
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-10768
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106408
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00024.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3140
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3505
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3647-1/