Improper Input Validation Affecting poppler package, versions [,3.02)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.05% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-POPPLER-2372080
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed5 Nov 2010
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 Nov 2010

CVE-2010-3704  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade poppler to version 3.02 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation. The FoFiType1::parse function in fofi/FoFiType1.cc in the PDF parser in xpdf before 3.02pl5, poppler 0.8.7 and possibly other versions up to 0.15.1, kdegraphics, and possibly other products allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a PDF file with a crafted PostScript Type1 font that contains a negative array index, which bypasses input validation and triggers memory corruption.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1