SB2023122128 - SUSE update for poppler
Published: December 21, 2023
Security Bulletin ID
SB2023122128
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
2
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Null pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-7511)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.The weakness exists due to NULL pointer dereference in the pdfunite when handling malicious content. A remote attacker can send specially crafted PDF file, trick the victim into opening it and cause the application to crash.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.
2) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-20662)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a wrong return value from PDFDoc::setup when an xref data structure is mishandled during extractPDFSubtype processing. A remote attacker can trick the victim into opening a specially crafter PDF file cause application crash by Object.h SIGABRT.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.