Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions Affecting poppler-devel package, versions <0:0.26.5-42.20.amzn1


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.91% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN201803-POPPLERDEVEL-1723303
  • published27 Sept 2021
  • disclosed22 Apr 2019

Introduced: 22 Apr 2019

CVE-2019-11459  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-754  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-908  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03 poppler-devel to version 0:0.26.5-42.20.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2020-1398.

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.

The tiff_document_render() and tiff_document_get_thumbnail() functions in the TIFF document backend in GNOME Evince through 3.32.0 did not handle errors from TIFFReadRGBAImageOriented(), leading to uninitialized memory use when processing certain TIFF image files.

CVSS Scores

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