SB2014012602 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Freedesktop Poppler

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SB2014012602 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Freedesktop Poppler

Published: January 26, 2014 Updated: August 10, 2020

Security Bulletin ID SB2014012602
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Data manipulation

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Link following (CVE-ID: CVE-2013-4472)

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to manipulate or delete data.

The openTempFile function in goo/gfile.cc in Xpdf and Poppler 0.24.3 and earlier, when running on a system other than Unix, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files with predictable names.


2) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2013-7296)

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.

The JBIG2Stream::readSegments method in JBIG2Stream.cc in Poppler before 0.24.5 does not use the correct specifier within a format string, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and application crash) via a crafted PDF file.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References