Improper input validation in Poppler - CVE-2018-16646

Vulnerability identifier: #VU16351

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-2018-16646

CWE-ID: CWE-20

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

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

The vulnerability exists in the Parser::getObj() function, as defined in the Parser.cc source code file of the affected software due to improper processing of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can trick the victim into accessing an embedded file that submits malicious input, trigger an infinite recursion condition and cause the service to crash.

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
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
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
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
poppler

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
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
poppler - addressed in versions 0.62.0-10.fc28, 0.67.0-6.fc29

• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/merge_requests/67

• Denial of service in 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 poppler
• Fedora 28 update for poppler
• Fedora 29 update for mingw-poppler
• Fedora 28 update for mingw-poppler