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Secunia Advisory SA33853

Poppler Two Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory SA33853
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Release Date 2009-02-12
Last Update 2009-03-11
   
Popularity 4,663 views
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact DoS
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Software:
Poppler 0.x

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2009-0755 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2009-0756 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Poppler, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

1) An uninitialised memory access error in the "FormWidgetChoice::loadDefaults()" function can be exploited to cause a crash via a specially crafted PDF document.

2) An error in the "JBIG2Stream::readSymbolDictSeg()" function can be exploited to cause a crash via a specially crafted PDF document.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 0.10.4.


Solution
Update to version 0.10.4.

Provided and/or discovered by
Reported in a Poppler bug report by:
1) vlad
2) Mario Kemper (Romario)

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
1) https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/poppler/+bug/321764
2) https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/poppler/+bug/320181

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