Resource Exhaustion Affecting poppler-qt5 package, versions <0:0.66.0-11.el8_0.12


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.85% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-POPPLERQT5-3466356
  • published 26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 15 Mar 2019

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 poppler-qt5 to version 0:0.66.0-11.el8_0.12 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2019:2713.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream poppler-qt5 package and not the poppler-qt5 package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

PDFDoc::markObject in PDFDoc.cc in Poppler 0.74.0 mishandles dict marking, leading to stack consumption in the function Dict::find() located at Dict.cc, which can (for example) be triggered by passing a crafted pdf file to the pdfunite binary.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

6.5 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High