SB2019041748 - Fedora 29 update for poppler

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SB2019041748 - Fedora 29 update for poppler

Published: April 17, 2019 Updated: April 24, 2025

Security Bulletin ID SB2019041748
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) 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.


2) Infinite loop (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-11026)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to infinite loop in FontInfoScanner::scanFonts() function in FontInfo.cc. A remote attacker can consume all available system resources and cause denial of service conditions.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References