NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting poppler package, versions <0.71.0-4


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.42% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-POPPLER-1557553
  • published5 Apr 2019
  • disclosed5 Apr 2019

Introduced: 5 Apr 2019

CVE-2019-10873  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 poppler to version 0.71.0-4 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream poppler package and not the poppler package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.74.0. There is a NULL pointer dereference in the function SplashClip::clipAALine at splash/SplashClip.cc.