Resource Exhaustion Affecting poppler-utils package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on CentOS security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.41% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS6-POPPLERUTILS-1997259
  • published 26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 1 Nov 2018

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:6 poppler-utils.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream poppler-utils package and not the poppler-utils package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.71.0. There is a memory leak in GfxColorSpace::setDisplayProfile in GfxState.cc, as demonstrated by pdftocairo.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

6.5 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High