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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2022-37050: Security patch for poppler (ALAS-2023-1821)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2022-37050: Security patch for poppler (ALAS-2023-1821)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/22/2023
Created
09/13/2023
Added
09/11/2023
Modified
09/11/2023

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-poppler

References

  • ALAS-2023-1821
  • CVE-2022-37050

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