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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-20481: poppler security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-20481: poppler security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/26/2018
Created
02/09/2021
Added
02/08/2021
Modified
02/08/2021

Description

XRef::getEntry in XRef.cc in Poppler 0.72.0 mishandles unallocated XRef entries, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted PDF document, when XRefEntry::setFlag in XRef.h is called from Parser::makeStream in Parser.cc.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp9-upgrade-poppler
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp9-upgrade-poppler-cpp
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp9-upgrade-poppler-help

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