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DEBIAN-CVE-2018-20662

In Poppler 0.72.0, PDFDoc::setup in PDFDoc.cc allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (application crash caused by Object.h SIGABRT, because of...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

In Poppler 0.72.0, PDFDoc::setup in PDFDoc.cc allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (application crash caused by Object.h SIGABRT, because of a wrong return value from PDFDoc::setup) by crafting a PDF file in which an xref data structure is mishandled during extractPDFSubtype processing.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 poppler

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.71.0-4"}]}]

Debian:13 poppler

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.71.0-4"}]}]

Debian:14 poppler

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.71.0-4"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org