Out-of-bounds Read Affecting poppler-qt-devel package, versions <0:0.26.5-38.el7


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.18% (57th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-POPPLERQTDEVEL-2136928
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed6 Nov 2018

Introduced: 6 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-19059  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Centos:7 poppler-qt-devel to version 0:0.26.5-38.el7 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream poppler-qt-devel package and not the poppler-qt-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 out-of-bounds read in EmbFile::save2 in FileSpec.cc, will lead to denial of service, as demonstrated by utils/pdfdetach.cc not validating embedded files before save attempts.