CVE-2019-9903

Published: 21 March 2019

PDFDoc::markObject in PDFDoc.cc in Poppler 0.74.0 mishandles dict marking, leading to stack consumption in the function Dict::find() located at Dict.cc, which can (for example) be triggered by passing a crafted pdf file to the pdfunite binary.

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
poppler Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Released (0.62.0-2ubuntu2.9)
	cosmic	Released (0.68.0-0ubuntu1.7)
	disco	Released (0.74.0-0ubuntu1.2)
	precise	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist (trusty was needed)
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Released (0.41.0-0ubuntu1.14)
	Patches: upstream: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/fada09a2ccc11a3a1d308e810f1336d8df6011fd

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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