Fedora 30 update for poppler



| Updated: 2025-04-25
Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2019-9959
CWE-ID CWE-190
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 one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Integer overflow

EUVDB-ID: #VU19570

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 4 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2019-9959

CWE-ID: CWE-190 - Integer overflow

Exploit availability: No

Description

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

The vulnerability exists due to integer overflow in the "JPXStream::init" function, caused by a failure to bounds-check user-supplied data before copying it to an undersized memory buffer. A remote attacker can supply crafted data to the system, trigger integer overflow and cause a denial of service condition on the targeted system.


Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's repository.

Vulnerable software versions

Fedora: 30

poppler: before 0.73.0-14.fc30

CPE2.3 External links

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-69ec14786b


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.



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