Fedora 29 update for poppler

Published: 2019-04-17 | Updated: 2025-04-24

Risk	Low
Patch available	YES
Number of vulnerabilities	2
CVE-ID	CVE-2019-9903 CVE-2019-11026
CWE-ID	CWE-400 CWE-835
Exploitation vector	Network
Public exploit	N/A
Vulnerable software	Fedora Operating systems & Components / Operating system poppler Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component
Vendor	Fedoraproject

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU18093

Risk: Low

CVSSv4.0: 1.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear]

CVE-ID: CVE-2019-9903

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

Exploit availability: No

Description

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.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's repository.

Vulnerable software versions

Fedora: 29

poppler: before 0.67.0-18.fc29

CPE2.3

External links

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-95eb49ef49

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.

2) Infinite loop

EUVDB-ID: #VU19597