Improper Input Validation Affecting poppler package, versions <0.48.0-2+deb9u4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.81% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-POPPLER-426520
  • published3 Jan 2019
  • disclosed3 Jan 2019

Introduced: 3 Jan 2019

CVE-2018-20662  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 poppler to version 0.48.0-2+deb9u4 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:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

In Poppler 0.72.0, PDFDoc::setup in PDFDoc.cc allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (application crash caused by Object.h SIGABRT, because of a wrong return value from PDFDoc::setup) by crafting a PDF file in which an xref data structure is mishandled during extractPDFSubtype processing.

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