Vigil@nce - Poppler: out-of-bounds memory reading via EmbFile-save2
January 2019 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Fedora, Ubuntu, WindRiver Linux.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: data reading, denial of service on service, denial
of service on client.
Provenance: document.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 19/11/2018.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can force a read at an invalid address via
EmbFile::save2() of Poppler, in order to trigger a denial of
service, or to obtain sensitive information.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Poppler-out-of-bounds-memory-reading-via-EmbFile-save2-27813