Denial of Service Vulnerability in Poppler PDF Rendering Library
CVE-2019-11026

6.5MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Freedesktop

Status
Poppler
Vendor
CVE Published:
8 April 2019

What is CVE-2019-11026?

A vulnerability exists in the FontInfoScanner::scanFonts method within FontInfo.cc of Poppler version 0.75.0, which can cause infinite recursion. This leads to a continuous loop that ultimately results in a potential denial of service, affecting the application's stability and availability. When exploited, it can lead to the application becoming unresponsive, disrupting service for users.

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References

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/752
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https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/1508/
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https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-ann...
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
6.5
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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