NULL pointer dereference in Poppler - CVE-2013-1789
Published: October 31, 2023
Vulnerability identifier: #VU82604
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-1789
CWE-ID: CWE-476
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 a NULL pointer dereference error within the Splash::arbitraryTransformMask(), Splash::blitMask(), and Splash::scaleMaskYuXu() functions. A remote attacker can trick the victim to open a specially crafted file and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Affected software
Poppler
How to mitigate CVE-2013-1789
Install update from vendor's website.
Poppler - update to 0.22.1
External References
- http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?h=poppler-0.22&id=a205e71a2dbe0c8d4f4905a76a3f79ec522eacec
- http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?h=poppler-0.22&id=a9b8ab4657dec65b8b86c225d12c533ad7e984e2
- http://j00ru.vexillium.org/?p=1507
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-March/100081.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-March/100090.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/52846
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1785-1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/28/4
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/28/8
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=917109