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


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.28% (69th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2-POPPLERGLIBDEVEL-1675162
  • published27 Sept 2021
  • disclosed10 Nov 2018

Introduced: 10 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-19149  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 poppler-glib-devel 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-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.

Poppler before 0.70.0 has a NULL pointer dereference in _poppler_attachment_new when called from poppler_annot_file_attachment_get_attachment.