Out-of-bounds Read Affecting cairo-gobject package, versions <0:1.15.12-3.el7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.78% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-CAIROGOBJECT-4889036
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed23 Jul 2018

Introduced: 23 Jul 2018

CVE-2018-13988  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 cairo-gobject to version 0:1.15.12-3.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2018:3140.

NVD Description

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

Poppler through 0.62 contains an out of bounds read vulnerability due to an incorrect memory access that is not mapped in its memory space, as demonstrated by pdfunite. This can result in memory corruption and denial of service. This may be exploitable when a victim opens a specially crafted PDF file.