ALAS-2023-1821

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-37050  

In Poppler 22.07.0, PDFDoc::savePageAs in PDFDoc.c callows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (application crashes with SIGABRT) by crafting a PDF file in which the xref data structure is mishandled in getCatalog processing. Note that this vulnerability is caused by the incomplete patch of CVE-2018-20662. (CVE-2022-37050)

ALAS-2023-1821


Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-1821
Advisory Release Date: 2023-08-30 17:56 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-09-09 00:34 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

In Poppler 22.07.0, PDFDoc::savePageAs in PDFDoc.c callows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (application crashes with SIGABRT) by crafting a PDF file in which the xref data structure is mishandled in getCatalog processing. Note that this vulnerability is caused by the incomplete patch of CVE-2018-20662. (CVE-2022-37050)


Affected Packages:

poppler


Issue Correction:
Run yum update poppler to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    poppler-utils-0.26.5-43.24.amzn1.i686
    poppler-glib-devel-0.26.5-43.24.amzn1.i686
    poppler-debuginfo-0.26.5-43.24.amzn1.i686
    poppler-cpp-0.26.5-43.24.amzn1.i686
    poppler-cpp-devel-0.26.5-43.24.amzn1.i686
    poppler-glib-0.26.5-43.24.amzn1.i686
    poppler-devel-0.26.5-43.24.amzn1.i686
    poppler-0.26.5-43.24.amzn1.i686

src:
    poppler-0.26.5-43.24.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    poppler-glib-devel-0.26.5-43.24.amzn1.x86_64
    poppler-debuginfo-0.26.5-43.24.amzn1.x86_64
    poppler-0.26.5-43.24.amzn1.x86_64
    poppler-cpp-0.26.5-43.24.amzn1.x86_64
    poppler-cpp-devel-0.26.5-43.24.amzn1.x86_64
    poppler-utils-0.26.5-43.24.amzn1.x86_64
    poppler-glib-0.26.5-43.24.amzn1.x86_64
    poppler-devel-0.26.5-43.24.amzn1.x86_64