NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting poppler package, versions <0.62.0-2ubuntu2.4


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.91% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-POPPLER-426246
  • published2 Dec 2018
  • disclosed7 Nov 2018

Introduced: 7 Nov 2018

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

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:18.04 poppler to version 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.4 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream poppler package and not the poppler package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:18.04 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.