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Poppler Invalid Tree Node Denial of Service Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA23813  
Release Date: 2007-01-19

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Workaround

Software:Poppler 0.x

CVE reference:CVE-2007-0104 (Secunia mirror)



Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Poppler, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the handling of catalog dictionaries or page attributes that reference an invalid page tree node. This can be exploited to cause an infinite loop by e.g. tricking a user into opening a specially crafted PDF document.

Solution:
Fixed in the CVS repository.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported in various PDF applications by LMH.

Original Advisory:
http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/MOAB-06-01-2007.html



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6 Related Secunia Security Advisories

1. Poppler "pageWidgets" Uninitialized Memory Access
2. Poppler Embedded Fonts Processing Vulnerability
3. Poppler "Stream.cc" Multiple Vulnerabilities
4. Poppler "StreamPredictor" Multiple Vulnerabilities
5. Poppler Xpdf Multiple Integer Overflow Vulnerabilities
6. Poppler Xpdf Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities


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