Vigil@nce - Poppler: NULL pointer dereference via SplashClip-clipAALine
August 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, Solaris, Ubuntu.
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: 19/06/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can force a NULL pointer to be dereferenced via
SplashClip::clipAALine() of Poppler, in order to trigger a denial
of service.
ACCESS TO THE FULL VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Poppler-NULL-pointer-dereference-via-SplashClip-clipAALine-29564