Homepage
About Snyk

Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting webkitgtk4-doc package, versions <0:2.20.5-1.el7

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    1.04% (85th percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications
  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL7-WEBKITGTK4DOC-4837229
  • published 26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 12 Oct 2017
Report a new vulnerability Found a mistake?

Introduced: 12 Oct 2017

CVE-2017-18267 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-674 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 webkitgtk4-doc to version 0:2.20.5-1.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2018:3140.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream webkitgtk4-doc package and not the webkitgtk4-doc package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

The FoFiType1C::cvtGlyph function in fofi/FoFiType1C.cc in Poppler through 0.64.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion) via a crafted PDF file, as demonstrated by pdftops.