Improper Input Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package poppler  (opens in a new tab)


Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
18.19% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-POPPLER-635347
  • published23 Nov 2013
  • disclosed23 Nov 2013

Introduced: 23 Nov 2013

CVE-2013-4474  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

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

Format string vulnerability in the extractPages function in utils/pdfseparate.cc in poppler before 0.24.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via format string specifiers in a destination filename.