NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package poppler  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-POPPLER-645889
  • published24 Feb 2018
  • disclosed24 Feb 2018

Introduced: 24 Feb 2018

CVE-2018-7454  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream poppler package and not the poppler package as distributed by Ubuntu.

A NULL pointer dereference in XFAForm::scanFields in XFAForm.cc in xpdf 4.00 allows attackers to launch denial of service via a specific pdf file, as demonstrated by pdftohtml.