Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') Affecting poppler-qt-devel package, versions <0:0.26.5-38.amzn2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.88% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2-POPPLERQTDEVEL-1675079
  • published27 Sept 2021
  • disclosed6 Sept 2018

Introduced: 6 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-16646  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-835  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 poppler-qt-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-qt-devel package and not the poppler-qt-devel package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.

In Poppler 0.68.0, the Parser::getObj() function in Parser.cc may cause infinite recursion via a crafted file. A remote attacker can leverage this for a DoS attack.