github - ghsa-j6x9-fqfr-79q4

ghsa-j6x9-fqfr-79q4

Vulnerability from github

Published

2023-08-22 21:30

Modified

2025-11-03 21:30

Severity ?

6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

In Poppler 22.07.0, PDFDoc::savePageAs in PDFDoc.c callows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (application crashes with SIGABRT) by crafting a PDF file in which the xref data structure is mishandled in getCatalog processing. Note that this vulnerability is caused by the incomplete patch of CVE-2018-20662.

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  "id": "GHSA-j6x9-fqfr-79q4",
  "modified": "2025-11-03T21:30:53Z",
  "published": "2023-08-22T21:30:26Z",
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CVE-2022-37050 (GCVE-0-2022-37050)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2023-08-22 00:00

Modified

2025-11-03 19:27

Severity ?

6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE

n/a

Summary

In Poppler 22.07.0, PDFDoc::savePageAs in PDFDoc.c callows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (application crashes with SIGABRT) by crafting a PDF file in which the xref data structure is mishandled in getCatalog processing. Note that this vulnerability is caused by the incomplete patch of CVE-2018-20662.

References

URL

Tags

	https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1274
	https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/commit/dcd5bd8238ea448addd102ff045badd0aca1b990
	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00022.html	mailing-list

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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