SB2018010550 - Fedora 26 update for poppler
Published: January 5, 2018 Updated: April 24, 2025
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018010550
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Memory corruption (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-1000456)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.The weakness exists due to improper validation of boundaries in TextPool::addWord in freedesktop.org libpoppler. A remote attacker can trigger overflow in subsequent calculations and cause the service to crash.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.