Improper Input Validation Affecting poppler package, versions [,0.24.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
18.19% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-POPPLER-2372046
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Nov 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Nov 2013

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

How to fix?

Upgrade poppler to version 0.24.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation. 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.

CVSS Scores

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