Resource Exhaustion Affecting poppler-glib-devel package, versions <0:0.26.5-43.24.amzn1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.09% (63rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN201803-POPPLERGLIBDEVEL-5889418
  • published8 Sept 2023
  • disclosed22 Aug 2023

Introduced: 22 Aug 2023

CVE-2022-37050  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03 poppler-glib-devel to version 0:0.26.5-43.24.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2023-1821.

NVD Description

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

In Poppler 22.07.0, PDFDoc::savePageAs in PDFDoc.c callows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (application crashes with SIGABRT) by crafting a PDF file in which the xref data structure is mishandled in getCatalog processing. Note that this vulnerability is caused by the incomplete patch of CVE-2018-20662.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1