Buffer overflow in Poppler - CVE-2013-1788
Published: April 9, 2013 / Updated: July 28, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU32691
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-1788
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Freedesktop.org
Affected software:
Poppler
Poppler
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
poppler before 0.22.1 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors that trigger an "invalid memory access" in (1) splash/Splash.cc, (2) poppler/Function.cc, and (3) poppler/Stream.cc.
How to mitigate CVE-2013-1788
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?h=poppler-0.22&id=0388837f01bc467045164f9ddaff787000a8caaa
- http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?h=poppler-0.22&id=8b6dc55e530b2f5ede6b9dfb64aafdd1d5836492
- http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?h=poppler-0.22&id=957aa252912cde85d76c41e9710b33425a82b696
- http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?h=poppler-0.22&id=bbc2d8918fe234b7ef2c480eb148943922cc0959
- http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?h=poppler-0.22&id=e14b6e9c13d35c9bd1e0c50906ace8e707816888
- http://j00ru.vexillium.org/?p=1507
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-March/100081.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-March/100090.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/52846
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1785-1
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2719
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:143
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/28/4
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/28/8
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=917108