Out-of-bounds Read Affecting poppler-devel package, versions <0:0.26.5-38.19.amzn1


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.18% (57th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN201803-POPPLERDEVEL-1719065
  • published27 Sept 2021
  • disclosed7 Nov 2018

Introduced: 7 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-19059  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03 poppler-devel to version 0:0.26.5-38.19.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2019-1271.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream poppler-devel package and not the poppler-devel package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2018.03 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.71.0. There is a out-of-bounds read in EmbFile::save2 in FileSpec.cc, will lead to denial of service, as demonstrated by utils/pdfdetach.cc not validating embedded files before save attempts.