Vigil@nce - Poppler: NULL pointer dereference via _poppler_attachment_new
February 2019 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/offer/Computer-vulnerability-database-and-alert
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Fedora, Ubuntu.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: denial of service on service, denial of service on
client.
Provenance: document.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 04/12/2018.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can force a NULL pointer to be dereferenced via
_poppler_attachment_new() of Poppler, in order to trigger a denial
of service.
ACCESS TO THE FULL VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Poppler-NULL-pointer-dereference-via-poppler-attachment-new-27946