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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-16646: Security patch for poppler (ALAS-2019-1332)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-16646: Security patch for poppler (ALAS-2019-1332)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/06/2018
Created
05/08/2020
Added
04/27/2020
Modified
09/30/2022

Description

In Poppler 0.68.0, the Parser::getObj() function in Parser.cc may cause infinite recursion via a crafted file. A remote attacker can leverage this for a DoS attack.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-poppler
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-poppler-cpp
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-poppler-cpp-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-poppler-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-poppler-demos
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-poppler-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-poppler-glib
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-poppler-glib-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-poppler-qt
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-poppler-qt-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-poppler-utils

References

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