Heap-based buffer over-read in Poppler - CVE-2019-7310

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Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU17370

Heap-based buffer over-read in Poppler - CVE-2019-7310

Published: February 4, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU17370
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 4.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-7310
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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

The vulnerability exists due to an integer signedness error in the XRef::getEntry function in XRef.cc. A remote attacker can trick the victim into processing a specially crafted PDF document, as demonstrated by pdftocairo, trigger heap-based buffer over-read and perform a denial of service.


Affected software

Poppler
Arch Linux
Amazon Linux AMI
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
SUSE CaaS Platform
SUSE Enterprise Storage
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension
openSUSE Leap
Fedora
poppler (Ubuntu package)
libpoppler44
libpoppler44-debuginfo
poppler-tools
libpoppler-qt4-4-debuginfo
libpoppler60-debuginfo
libpoppler-qt4-4
poppler-tools-debuginfo
libpoppler60
libpoppler-glib8-debuginfo
libpoppler-glib8
libpoppler-cpp0-debuginfo
libpoppler-cpp0
poppler-debugsource
libpoppler-devel
libpoppler-glib-devel
typelib-1_0-Poppler-0_18
libpoppler-qt4-devel
mingw-poppler
libpoppler73
libpoppler73-debuginfo
poppler
libpoppler73-32bit
libpoppler73-32bit-debuginfo

How to mitigate CVE-2019-7310

Install update from vendor's website.

poppler (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.16, 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.12, 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.7, 0.68.0-0ubuntu1.5
libpoppler44 - update to 0.24.4-14.26.1
libpoppler44-debuginfo - update to 0.24.4-14.26.1
poppler-tools - 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
libpoppler-glib8 - 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
typelib-1_0-Poppler-0_18 - 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
mingw-poppler - addressed in versions 0.62.0-3.fc28, 0.67.0-4.fc29
libpoppler73 - addressed in versions 0.62.0-4.6.1, 0.62.0-150000.4.18.1
libpoppler73-debuginfo - addressed in versions 0.62.0-4.6.1, 0.62.0-150000.4.18.1
poppler - addressed in versions 0.62.0-16.fc28, 0.67.0-12.fc29
libpoppler73-32bit - update to 0.62.0-150000.4.18.1
libpoppler73-32bit-debuginfo - update to 0.62.0-150000.4.18.1

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