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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-16646: poppler security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-16646: poppler security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/06/2018
Created
11/20/2019
Added
11/19/2019
Modified
11/19/2019

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)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-poppler
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-poppler-glib
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-poppler-qt
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-poppler-utils

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