SB2019032807 - Denial of service in Poppler
Published: March 28, 2019
Security Bulletin ID
SB2019032807
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) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-9903)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to incorrect processing of dict marking in PDFDoc::markObject() function in PDFDoc.cc file when processing PDF files. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted PDF file to the affected software that invokes pdfunite binary, trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.