Vigil@nce - PoDoFo: NULL pointer dereference via PoDoFo-Impose-PdfTranslator-setSource
April 2019 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Fedora.
Severity: 1/4.
Consequences: denial of service on service, denial of service on
client.
Provenance: document.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 29/03/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can force a NULL pointer to be dereferenced via
PoDoFo::Impose::PdfTranslator::setSource() of PoDoFo, in order to
trigger a denial of service.
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