SB2013040903 - Buffer overflow in Freedesktop Poppler
Published: April 9, 2013 Updated: July 28, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2013040903
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Data manipulation
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2013-1790)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
poppler/Stream.cc in poppler before 0.22.1 allows context-dependent attackers to have an unspecified impact via vectors that trigger a read of uninitialized memory by the CCITTFaxStream::lookChar function.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?h=poppler-0.22&id=b1026b5978c385328f2a15a2185c599a563edf91
- http://j00ru.vexillium.org/?p=1507
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-March/100081.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-March/100090.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/52846
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1785-1
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2719
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:143
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/28/4
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/28/8
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=917111