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DEBIAN-CVE-2018-20650

A reachable Object::dictLookup assertion in Poppler 0.72.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service due to the lack of a check for the dict data...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

A reachable Object::dictLookup assertion in Poppler 0.72.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service due to the lack of a check for the dict data type, as demonstrated by use of the FileSpec class (in FileSpec.cc) in pdfdetach.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 poppler

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.85.0-2"}]}]

Debian:13 poppler

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.85.0-2"}]}]

Debian:14 poppler

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.85.0-2"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org