NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting poppler-qt package, versions <0:0.26.5-38.amzn2
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- published27 Sept 2021
- disclosed7 Nov 2018
Introduced: 7 Nov 2018
CVE-2018-19060 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 poppler-qt 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-qt package and not the poppler-qt 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.