Buffer overflow in Poppler - CVE-2013-7296

 

Buffer overflow in Poppler - CVE-2013-7296

Published: January 26, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU42107
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-7296
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 perform service disruption.

The JBIG2Stream::readSegments method in JBIG2Stream.cc in Poppler before 0.24.5 does not use the correct specifier within a format string, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and application crash) via a crafted PDF file.


Affected software

Poppler
Gentoo Linux

How to mitigate CVE-2013-7296

Install update from vendor's website.


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