Improper Input Validation 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
1.24% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN201803-POPPLERDEVEL-1719129
  • published27 Sept 2021
  • disclosed1 Jan 2019

Introduced: 1 Jan 2019

CVE-2018-20650  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (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.

A reachable Object::dictLookup assertion in Poppler 0.72.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service due to the lack of a check for the dict data type, as demonstrated by use of the FileSpec class (in FileSpec.cc) in pdfdetach.

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