Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting libpodofo package, versions <0.9.8+dfsg-2


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.98% (60th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-LIBPODOFO-342155
  • published3 Apr 2019
  • disclosed3 Apr 2019

Introduced: 3 Apr 2019

CVE-2019-10723  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable libpodofo to version 0.9.8+dfsg-2 or higher.

NVD Description

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

An issue was discovered in PoDoFo 0.9.6. The PdfPagesTreeCache class in doc/PdfPagesTreeCache.cpp has an attempted excessive memory allocation because nInitialSize is not validated.