Resource management error in podofo - CVE-2019-10723

Vulnerability identifier: #VU36030

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2019-10723

CWE-ID: CWE-399

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

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

An issue was discovered in PoDoFo 0.9.6. The PdfPagesTreeCache class in doc/PdfPagesTreeCache.cpp has an attempted excessive memory allocation because nInitialSize is not validated.

podofo
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro
SUSE Package Hub 15
openSUSE Leap
podofo (Alpine package)
libpodofo0_9_6-debuginfo
libpodofo0_9_6
libpodofo-devel
podofo
podofo-debuginfo
podofo-debugsource

Install update from vendor's website.

podofo (Alpine package) - update to 0.9.7-r0
libpodofo0_9_6-debuginfo - update to 0.9.6-150300.3.9.1
libpodofo0_9_6 - update to 0.9.6-150300.3.9.1
libpodofo-devel - update to 0.9.6-150300.3.9.1
podofo - update to 0.9.6-150300.3.9.1
podofo-debuginfo - update to 0.9.6-150300.3.9.1
podofo-debugsource - update to 0.9.6-150300.3.9.1

• https://sourceforge.net/p/podofo/tickets/46/

• Multiple vulnerabilities in podofo.sourceforge.net podofo
• Resource management error in podofo (Alpine package)
• SUSE update for podofo