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SUSE: CVE-2018-20481: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2018-20481: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/25/2018
Created
02/10/2022
Added
12/02/2021
Modified
12/02/2021

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)

  • suse-upgrade-libpoppler-cpp0
  • suse-upgrade-libpoppler-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libpoppler-glib-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libpoppler-glib8
  • suse-upgrade-libpoppler73
  • suse-upgrade-libpoppler73-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-poppler-tools
  • suse-upgrade-typelib-1_0-poppler-0_18

References

  • SUSE-SU-2021:3854-1
  • USN-3865-1
  • CVE-2018-20481

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