Out-of-bounds Read Affecting poppler-qt package, versions <0:0.26.5-38.el7


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.18% (56th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-POPPLERQT-8007934
  • published17 Sept 2024
  • disclosed6 Nov 2018

Introduced: 6 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-19059  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 poppler-qt to version 0:0.26.5-38.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2019:2022.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream poppler-qt package and not the poppler-qt 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 out-of-bounds read in EmbFile::save2 in FileSpec.cc, will lead to denial of service, as demonstrated by utils/pdfdetach.cc not validating embedded files before save attempts.