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Out-of-bounds Read Affecting poppler package, versions <0.57.0-2ubuntu4

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.17% (55th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1904-POPPLER-526231
  • published25 Jun 2019
  • disclosed25 Jun 2019
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Introduced: 25 Jun 2019

CVE-2019-12958  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:19.04 poppler to version 0.57.0-2ubuntu4 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:19.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

In Xpdf 4.01.01, a heap-based buffer over-read could be triggered in FoFiType1C::convertToType0 in fofi/FoFiType1C.cc when it is trying to access the second privateDicts array element, because the privateDicts array has only one element allocated.

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