Vigil@nce - Poppler: assertion error via Object-dictLookup
March 2019 by Vigil@nce
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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: 22/01/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can force an assertion error via Object::dictLookup()
of Poppler, in order to trigger a denial of service.
ACCESS TO THE FULL VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Poppler-assertion-error-via-Object-dictLookup-28328