NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting okular-part package, versions <0:4.10.5-7.el7


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.74% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-OKULARPART-4894489
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed6 Nov 2018

Introduced: 6 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-19060  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 okular-part to version 0:4.10.5-7.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2019:2022.

NVD Description

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

An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.71.0. There is a NULL pointer dereference in goo/GooString.h, will lead to denial of service, as demonstrated by utils/pdfdetach.cc not validating a filename of an embedded file before constructing a save path.