poppler regression

2020-11-2618:10:34

Google

osv.dev

6.5 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

7 High

AI Score

Confidence

Low

4.3 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

0.007 Low

EPSS

Percentile

80.7%

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USN-4646-1 fixed vulnerabilities in poppler. The fix for CVE-2019-10871
introduced a regression causing certain applications linked against poppler
to fail. This update backs out the fix pending further investigation.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that Poppler incorrectly handled certain files. If a user
or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an
attacker could cause a denial of service.