Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting poppler package, versions [,0.53.0]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.68% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-POPPLER-2372031
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed12 Jul 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Jul 2017

CVE-2017-2820  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for poppler.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow or Wraparound. An exploitable integer overflow vulnerability exists in the JPEG 2000 image parsing functionality of freedesktop.org Poppler 0.53.0. A specially crafted PDF file can lead to an integer overflow causing out of bounds memory overwrite on the heap resulting in potential arbitrary code execution. To trigger this vulnerability, a victim must open the malicious PDF in an application using this library.

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