Resource Exhaustion Affecting poppler-devel package, versions <0:0.26.5-43.27.amzn1


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.14% (52nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN201803-POPPLERDEVEL-5929038
  • published4 Oct 2023
  • disclosed22 Aug 2023

Introduced: 22 Aug 2023

CVE-2020-23804  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03 poppler-devel to version 0:0.26.5-43.27.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2023-1852.

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.

Uncontrolled Recursion in pdfinfo, and pdftops in poppler 0.89.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted input.

CVSS Scores

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