Buffer overflow in Poppler - CVE-2013-7296
Published: January 26, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU42107
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-7296
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 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.
How to mitigate CVE-2013-7296
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=58e04a08afee39370283c494ee2e4e392fd3b684
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-January/125710.html
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/105
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/97
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56567
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56776
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201401-21.xml
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1048199
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/90552