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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2018-13988: Security patch for poppler (ALAS-2018-1110)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2018-13988: Security patch for poppler (ALAS-2018-1110)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/25/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
12/07/2018
Modified
10/14/2022

Description

Poppler through 0.62 contains an out of bounds read vulnerability due to an incorrect memory access that is not mapped in its memory space, as demonstrated by pdfunite. This can result in memory corruption and denial of service. This may be exploitable when a victim opens a specially crafted PDF file.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-poppler

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