NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting evince-devel package, versions <0:3.28.2-8.el7


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.74% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-EVINCEDEVEL-2136119
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed6 Nov 2018

Introduced: 6 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-19060  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Centos:7 evince-devel to version 0:3.28.2-8.el7 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream evince-devel package and not the evince-devel package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.71.0. There is a NULL pointer dereference in goo/GooString.h, will lead to denial of service, as demonstrated by utils/pdfdetach.cc not validating a filename of an embedded file before constructing a save path.