Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2019-9959: Security patch for poppler (ALAS-2020-1398)
4
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
07/22/2019
07/21/2020
07/18/2020
10/14/2022
Description
The JPXStream::init function in Poppler 0.78.0 and earlier doesn't check for negative values of stream length, leading to an Integer Overflow, thereby making it possible to allocate a large memory chunk on the heap, with a size controlled by an attacker, as demonstrated by pdftocairo.
Solution(s)
- amazon-linux-upgrade-poppler
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