Out-of-bounds read in xpdf - CVE-2018-18454

Vulnerability identifier: #VU36489

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 6.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-18454

CWE-ID: CWE-125

Exploitation vector: Local access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

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

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in CCITTFaxStream::readRow() in Stream.cc in Xpdf 4.00. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read) via a crafted pdf file, as demonstrated by pdftoppm.

xpdf
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12
openSUSE Leap
typelib-1_0-Poppler-0_18
libpoppler-qt4-4-debuginfo
libpoppler60
libpoppler-glib8-debuginfo
libpoppler-qt4-4
libpoppler-glib8
libpoppler60-debuginfo
poppler-tools
poppler-tools-debuginfo
libpoppler-devel
libpoppler-glib-devel
libpoppler-qt4-devel
libpoppler-cpp0
poppler-debugsource
libpoppler-cpp0-debuginfo
libpoppler73
libpoppler73-32bit-debuginfo
libpoppler73-32bit
libpoppler73-debuginfo

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

typelib-1_0-Poppler-0_18 - update to 0.43.0-16.40.1
libpoppler-qt4-4-debuginfo - update to 0.43.0-16.40.1
libpoppler60 - update to 0.43.0-16.40.1
libpoppler-glib8-debuginfo - update to 0.43.0-16.40.1
libpoppler-qt4-4 - update to 0.43.0-16.40.1
libpoppler-glib8 - update to 0.43.0-16.40.1
libpoppler60-debuginfo - update to 0.43.0-16.40.1
poppler-tools - update to 0.43.0-16.40.1
poppler-tools-debuginfo - update to 0.43.0-16.40.1
libpoppler-devel - update to 0.43.0-16.40.1
libpoppler-glib-devel - update to 0.43.0-16.40.1
libpoppler-qt4-devel - update to 0.43.0-16.40.1
libpoppler-cpp0 - update to 0.43.0-16.40.1
poppler-debugsource - update to 0.43.0-16.40.1
libpoppler-cpp0-debuginfo - update to 0.43.0-16.40.1
libpoppler73 - update to 0.62.0-150000.4.28.2
libpoppler73-32bit-debuginfo - update to 0.62.0-150000.4.28.2
libpoppler73-32bit - update to 0.62.0-150000.4.28.2
libpoppler73-debuginfo - update to 0.62.0-150000.4.28.2

• https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=41217
• https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/xpdf/2018_10_16/pdftoppm

• Multiple vulnerabilities in xpdf
• SUSE update for poppler
• SUSE update for poppler