NULL pointer dereference in Poppler - CVE-2018-19149

Vulnerability identifier: #VU15897

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 6.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-19149

CWE-ID: CWE-476

Exploitation vector: Local access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

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

The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dreference error in _poppler_attachment_new when called from poppler_annot_file_attachment_get_attachment. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Poppler
Gentoo Linux
Amazon Linux AMI
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
SUSE CaaS Platform
SUSE Enterprise Storage
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
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
mingw-poppler
libpoppler73-debuginfo
libpoppler73

Install update from vendor's website.

Poppler - update to 0.70.0
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
mingw-poppler - addressed in versions 0.62.0-2.fc28, 0.67.0-2.fc29
libpoppler73-debuginfo - update to 0.62.0-4.6.1
libpoppler73 - update to 0.62.0-4.6.1

• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/664

• Denial of service in Poppler
• Gentoo update for Poppler
• Red Hat update for poppler
• Amazon Linux AMI update for poppler
• SUSE update for poppler
• SUSE update for poppler
• SUSE update for poppler
• Fedora 29 update for mingw-poppler
• Fedora 28 update for mingw-poppler