Out-of-bounds read in Poppler - CVE-2019-10871

 

Out-of-bounds read in Poppler - CVE-2019-10871

Published: August 1, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU19598
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-2019-10871
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 heap-based buffer over-read in the function PSOutputDev::checkPageSlice in PSOutputDev.cc. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service attack.


Affected software

Poppler
Amazon Linux AMI
SUSE CaaS Platform
SUSE Enterprise Storage
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 Power, big endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
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
Ubuntu
Fedora
poppler (Red Hat package)
libpoppler58 (Ubuntu package)
poppler-utils (Ubuntu package)
libpoppler73 (Ubuntu package)
poppler-tools-debuginfo
typelib-1_0-Poppler-0_18
poppler-tools
libpoppler-glib8-debuginfo
libpoppler-glib8
libpoppler-glib-devel
libpoppler-devel
libpoppler-cpp0-debuginfo
libpoppler-cpp0
poppler-debugsource
libpoppler73-debuginfo
libpoppler73
poppler
evince (Red Hat package)

How to mitigate CVE-2019-10871

Install update from vendor's website.

Poppler - update to 0.75.0
poppler (Red Hat package) - update to 0.26.5-42.el7
libpoppler58 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.15, 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.16
poppler-utils (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.15, 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.16, 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.11, 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.12
libpoppler73 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.11, 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.12
poppler-tools-debuginfo - update to 0.62.0-4.6.1
typelib-1_0-Poppler-0_18 - update to 0.62.0-4.6.1
poppler-tools - update to 0.62.0-4.6.1
libpoppler-glib8-debuginfo - update to 0.62.0-4.6.1
libpoppler-glib8 - update to 0.62.0-4.6.1
libpoppler-glib-devel - update to 0.62.0-4.6.1
libpoppler-devel - update to 0.62.0-4.6.1
libpoppler-cpp0-debuginfo - update to 0.62.0-4.6.1
libpoppler-cpp0 - update to 0.62.0-4.6.1
poppler-debugsource - update to 0.62.0-4.6.1
libpoppler73-debuginfo - update to 0.62.0-4.6.1
libpoppler73 - update to 0.62.0-4.6.1
poppler - addressed in versions 0.67.0-21.fc29, 0.73.0-13.fc30
evince (Red Hat package) - update to 3.28.2-9.el7

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