Uncontrolled recursion in Poppler - CVE-2020-23804

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Uncontrolled recursion in Poppler - CVE-2020-23804

Published: October 10, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU81718
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-23804
CWE-ID: CWE-674
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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

The vulnerability exists due to uncontrolled recursion in pdfinfo and pdftops. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted document to application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

Poppler
Amazon Linux AMI
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12
SUSE CaaS Platform
SUSE Manager Server
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server
SUSE Manager Proxy
SUSE Enterprise Storage
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1 LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2 LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS
Basesystem Module
openSUSE Leap
Ubuntu
openEuler
poppler-utils (Ubuntu package)
libpoppler73 (Ubuntu package)
libpoppler58 (Ubuntu package)
libpoppler44-debuginfo
libpoppler44
poppler
libpoppler60
libpoppler-qt4-4
libpoppler-cpp0-debuginfo
libpoppler-qt4-devel
typelib-1_0-Poppler-0_18
poppler-debugsource
libpoppler-devel
libpoppler-glib-devel
libpoppler-cpp0
poppler-tools
libpoppler-glib8
libpoppler60-debuginfo
poppler-tools-debuginfo
libpoppler-glib8-debuginfo
libpoppler-qt4-4-debuginfo
libpoppler73-debuginfo
libpoppler73-32bit-debuginfo
libpoppler73-32bit
libpoppler73
libpoppler89-32bit
libpoppler89-32bit-debuginfo
libpoppler89-debuginfo
libpoppler89
libpoppler97 (Ubuntu package)
poppler-glib
poppler-utils
poppler-cpp
poppler-help
poppler-glib-doc
poppler-debuginfo
poppler-glib-devel
poppler-qt5
poppler-qt5-devel
poppler-cpp-devel
poppler-devel
libpoppler118 (Ubuntu package)

How to mitigate CVE-2020-23804

Install updates from vendor's website.

Poppler - update to 0.90.0
poppler-utils (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro, 0.86.1-0ubuntu1.4, 22.02.0-2ubuntu0.3
libpoppler73 (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro
libpoppler58 (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro
libpoppler44-debuginfo - update to 0.24.4-14.36.2
libpoppler44 - update to 0.24.4-14.36.2
poppler - update to 0.26.5-43.27
libpoppler60 - update to 0.43.0-16.35.2
libpoppler-qt4-4 - update to 0.43.0-16.35.2
libpoppler-cpp0-debuginfo - addressed in versions 0.43.0-16.35.2, 0.62.0-150000.4.25.2, 0.79.0-150200.3.21.2
libpoppler-qt4-devel - update to 0.43.0-16.35.2
typelib-1_0-Poppler-0_18 - addressed in versions 0.43.0-16.35.2, 0.62.0-150000.4.25.2, 0.79.0-150200.3.21.2
poppler-debugsource - addressed in versions 0.43.0-16.35.2, 0.62.0-150000.4.25.2, 0.79.0-150200.3.21.2
libpoppler-devel - addressed in versions 0.43.0-16.35.2, 0.62.0-150000.4.25.2, 0.79.0-150200.3.21.2
libpoppler-glib-devel - addressed in versions 0.43.0-16.35.2, 0.62.0-150000.4.25.2, 0.79.0-150200.3.21.2
libpoppler-cpp0 - addressed in versions 0.43.0-16.35.2, 0.62.0-150000.4.25.2, 0.79.0-150200.3.21.2
poppler-tools - addressed in versions 0.43.0-16.35.2, 0.62.0-150000.4.25.2, 0.79.0-150200.3.21.2
libpoppler-glib8 - addressed in versions 0.43.0-16.35.2, 0.62.0-150000.4.25.2, 0.79.0-150200.3.21.2
libpoppler60-debuginfo - update to 0.43.0-16.35.2
poppler-tools-debuginfo - addressed in versions 0.43.0-16.35.2, 0.62.0-150000.4.25.2, 0.79.0-150200.3.21.2
libpoppler-glib8-debuginfo - addressed in versions 0.43.0-16.35.2, 0.62.0-150000.4.25.2, 0.79.0-150200.3.21.2
libpoppler-qt4-4-debuginfo - update to 0.43.0-16.35.2
libpoppler73-debuginfo - update to 0.62.0-150000.4.25.2
libpoppler73-32bit-debuginfo - update to 0.62.0-150000.4.25.2
libpoppler73-32bit - update to 0.62.0-150000.4.25.2
libpoppler73 - update to 0.62.0-150000.4.25.2
libpoppler89-32bit - update to 0.79.0-150200.3.21.2
libpoppler89-32bit-debuginfo - update to 0.79.0-150200.3.21.2
libpoppler89-debuginfo - update to 0.79.0-150200.3.21.2
libpoppler89 - update to 0.79.0-150200.3.21.2
libpoppler97 (Ubuntu package) - update to 0.86.1-0ubuntu1.4
poppler-glib - addressed in versions 0.90.0-4, 0.90.0-5, 0.90.0-6
poppler-debugsource - addressed in versions 0.90.0-4, 0.90.0-5, 0.90.0-6
poppler-utils - addressed in versions 0.90.0-4, 0.90.0-5, 0.90.0-6
poppler-cpp - addressed in versions 0.90.0-4, 0.90.0-5, 0.90.0-6
poppler-help - addressed in versions 0.90.0-4, 0.90.0-5, 0.90.0-6
poppler-glib-doc - addressed in versions 0.90.0-4, 0.90.0-5, 0.90.0-6
poppler-debuginfo - addressed in versions 0.90.0-4, 0.90.0-5, 0.90.0-6
poppler-glib-devel - addressed in versions 0.90.0-4, 0.90.0-5, 0.90.0-6
poppler-qt5 - addressed in versions 0.90.0-4, 0.90.0-5, 0.90.0-6
poppler-qt5-devel - addressed in versions 0.90.0-4, 0.90.0-5, 0.90.0-6
poppler-cpp-devel - addressed in versions 0.90.0-4, 0.90.0-5, 0.90.0-6
poppler - addressed in versions 0.90.0-4, 0.90.0-5, 0.90.0-6
poppler-devel - addressed in versions 0.90.0-4, 0.90.0-5, 0.90.0-6
libpoppler118 (Ubuntu package) - update to 22.02.0-2ubuntu0.3

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