Out-of-bounds Read Affecting poppler package, versions [,24.12.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-POPPLER-8548085
  • published23 Dec 2024
  • disclosed22 Dec 2024
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Dec 2024

NewCVE-2024-56378  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade poppler to version 24.12.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read in the JBIG2Bitmap::combine() function, which can be exploited to cause a crash. This can be triggered by reading a malicious PDF file with pdfimages.

CVSS Scores

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version 3.1