Vigil@nce - PoDoFo: NULL pointer dereference via PdfDocument-Append
February 2019 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/offer/Computer-vulnerability-database-and-alert
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
– Impacted products: Fedora, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, SLES.
– Severity: 2/4.
– Consequences: denial of service on service, denial of service on
client.
– Provenance: document.
– Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
– Creation date: 27/12/2018.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can force a NULL pointer to be dereferenced via
PdfDocument::Append() of PoDoFo, in order to trigger a denial of
service.
ACCESS TO THE FULL VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/PoDoFo-NULL-pointer-dereference-via-PdfDocument-Append-28094