NULL pointer dereference in Poppler - CVE-2019-10873

 

NULL pointer dereference in Poppler - CVE-2019-10873

Published: August 1, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU19600
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-2019-10873
CWE-ID: CWE-476
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 a NULL pointer dreference error in function SplashClip::clipAALine in splash/SplashClip.cc. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

Poppler
Fedora
poppler

How to mitigate CVE-2019-10873

Install update from vendor's website.

Poppler - update to 0.75.0
poppler - addressed in versions 0.67.0-21.fc29, 0.73.0-13.fc30

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