poppler: CVE-2018-20650: reachable abort in FileSpec::FileSpec in FileSpec.cc

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-20650  

Debian Bug report logs - #917974
poppler: CVE-2018-20650: reachable abort in FileSpec::FileSpec in FileSpec.cc

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Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>

Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2019 21:06:02 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: fixed-upstream, patch, security, upstream

Found in version poppler/0.69.0-2

Forwarded to https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/704

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From: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: poppler: CVE-2018-20650: reachable abort in FileSpec::FileSpec in FileSpec.cc
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2019 22:03:28 +0100
Source: poppler
Version: 0.69.0-2
Severity: important
Tags: patch security upstream
Forwarded: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/704

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for poppler.

CVE-2018-20650[0]:
| A reachable Object::dictLookup assertion in Poppler 0.72.0 allows
| attackers to cause a denial of service due to the lack of a check for
| the dict data type, as demonstrated by use of the FileSpec class (in
| FileSpec.cc) in pdfdetach.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-20650
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-20650
[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/704

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore



Added tag(s) fixed-upstream. Request was from debian-bts-link@lists.debian.org to control@bugs.debian.org. (Mon, 07 Jan 2019 17:18:05 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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