Buffer overflow in Poppler - CVE-2013-1788

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Buffer overflow in Poppler - CVE-2013-1788

Published: April 9, 2013 / Updated: July 28, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU32691
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-1788
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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.


Affected software

Poppler
poppler (Alpine package)

How to mitigate CVE-2013-1788

Install update from vendor's website.

Poppler - update to 0.22.1
poppler (Alpine package) - update to 0.16.4-r1

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