NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting libpoppler73 package, versions <0.62.0-4.6.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.18% (56th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES152-LIBPOPPLER73-2657252
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed1 Dec 2021

Introduced: 1 Dec 2021

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

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.2 libpoppler73 to version 0.62.0-4.6.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libpoppler73 package and not the libpoppler73 package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.2 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.