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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2019-9959: poppler security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2019-9959: poppler security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/22/2019
Created
09/25/2019
Added
09/24/2019
Modified
09/24/2019

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)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-poppler
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-poppler-data
  • 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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