SB2018052206 - Denial of service in Poppler



SB2018052206 - Denial of service in Poppler

Published: May 22, 2018

Security Bulletin ID SB2018052206
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Uncontrolled recursion (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-18267)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists in the FoFiType1C::cvtGlyph function in fofi/FoFiType1C.cc due to infinite recursion. A remote attacker can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted PDF file and cause the service to crash.

2) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-10768)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists in the AnnotPath::getCoordsLength function in Annot.h due to NULL pointer dereference. A remote attacker can cause the service to crash.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.