Buffer overflow in Poppler - CVE-2018-13988

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Buffer overflow in Poppler - CVE-2018-13988

Published: August 2, 2018 / Updated: August 3, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU14189
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.7 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-13988
CWE-ID: CWE-120
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The vulnerability exists in the image rendering functionality due to buffer overflow when handling malicious input. A remote unauthenticated attacker can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted PDF file, trigger memory corruption and cause the system to crash.


Affected software

Poppler
Amazon Linux AMI
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
SUSE CaaS Platform
SUSE Enterprise Storage
CentOS
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension
Fedora
libpoppler44
libpoppler44-debuginfo
typelib-1_0-Poppler-0_18
libpoppler-qt4-4-debuginfo
libpoppler60-debuginfo
libpoppler-qt4-4
poppler-tools-debuginfo
libpoppler60
libpoppler-glib8-debuginfo
poppler-tools
libpoppler-cpp0-debuginfo
libpoppler-cpp0
poppler-debugsource
libpoppler-devel
libpoppler-glib-devel
libpoppler-qt4-devel
libpoppler-glib8
poppler
mingw-poppler
libpoppler73-debuginfo
libpoppler73

How to mitigate CVE-2018-13988

Install update from vendor's website.

libpoppler44 - update to 0.24.4-14.26.1
libpoppler44-debuginfo - update to 0.24.4-14.26.1
typelib-1_0-Poppler-0_18 - addressed in versions 0.43.0-16.25.1, 0.62.0-4.6.1
libpoppler-qt4-4-debuginfo - update to 0.43.0-16.25.1
libpoppler60-debuginfo - update to 0.43.0-16.25.1
libpoppler-qt4-4 - update to 0.43.0-16.25.1
poppler-tools-debuginfo - addressed in versions 0.43.0-16.25.1, 0.62.0-4.6.1
libpoppler60 - update to 0.43.0-16.25.1
libpoppler-glib8-debuginfo - addressed in versions 0.43.0-16.25.1, 0.62.0-4.6.1
poppler-tools - addressed in versions 0.43.0-16.25.1, 0.62.0-4.6.1
libpoppler-cpp0-debuginfo - addressed in versions 0.43.0-16.25.1, 0.62.0-4.6.1
libpoppler-cpp0 - addressed in versions 0.43.0-16.25.1, 0.62.0-4.6.1
poppler-debugsource - addressed in versions 0.43.0-16.25.1, 0.62.0-4.6.1
libpoppler-devel - addressed in versions 0.43.0-16.25.1, 0.62.0-4.6.1
libpoppler-glib-devel - addressed in versions 0.43.0-16.25.1, 0.62.0-4.6.1
libpoppler-qt4-devel - update to 0.43.0-16.25.1
libpoppler-glib8 - addressed in versions 0.43.0-16.25.1, 0.62.0-4.6.1
poppler - addressed in versions 0.57.0-10.fc27, 0.62.0-3.fc28
mingw-poppler - update to 0.62.0-2.fc28
libpoppler73-debuginfo - update to 0.62.0-4.6.1
libpoppler73 - update to 0.62.0-4.6.1

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