SB2019080101 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Poppler

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SB2019080101 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Poppler

Published: August 1, 2019 Updated: August 12, 2019

Security Bulletin ID SB2019080101
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Integer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-9959)

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.



2) Division by zero (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-14494)

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

The vulnerability exists due to division by zero error when processing untrusted input in the function SplashOutputDev::tilingPatternFill at SplashOutputDev.cc. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted PDF file and crash the application.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References