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An update for poppler is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Poppler is a Portable Document Format (PDF) rendering library, used by applications such as Evince.

Security Fix(es):

• poppler: heap-based buffer over-read in XRef::getEntry in XRef.cc (CVE-2019-7310)
• poppler: heap-based buffer overflow in function ImageStream::getLine() in Stream.cc (CVE-2019-9200)
• poppler: heap-based buffer over-read in function PSOutputDev::checkPageSlice in PSOutputDev.cc (CVE-2019-10871)
• poppler: heap-based buffer over-read in JPXStream::init in JPEG2000Stream.cc (CVE-2019-12293)
• poppler: memory leak in GfxColorSpace::setDisplayProfile in GfxState.cc (CVE-2018-18897)
• poppler: NULL pointer dereference in the XRef::getEntry in XRef.cc (CVE-2018-20481)
• poppler: reachable Object::getString assertion in AnnotRichMedia class in Annot.c (CVE-2018-20551)
• poppler: reachable Object::dictLookup assertion in FileSpec class in FileSpec.cc (CVE-2018-20650)
• poppler: SIGABRT PDFDoc::setup class in PDFDoc.cc (CVE-2018-20662)
• poppler: heap-based buffer over-read in function downsample_row_box_filter in CairoRescaleBox.cc (CVE-2019-9631)
• poppler: stack consumption in function Dict::find() in Dict.cc (CVE-2019-9903)
• poppler: integer overflow in JPXStream::init function leading to memory consumption (CVE-2019-9959)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 8 aarch64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems 8 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1646546 - CVE-2018-18897 poppler: memory leak in GfxColorSpace::setDisplayProfile in GfxState.cc
• BZ - 1665259 - CVE-2018-20551 poppler: reachable Object::getString assertion in AnnotRichMedia class in Annot.c
• BZ - 1665263 - CVE-2018-20650 poppler: reachable Object::dictLookup assertion in FileSpec class in FileSpec.cc
• BZ - 1665266 - CVE-2018-20481 poppler: NULL pointer dereference in the XRef::getEntry in XRef.cc
• BZ - 1665273 - CVE-2018-20662 poppler: SIGABRT PDFDoc::setup class in PDFDoc.cc
• BZ - 1672419 - CVE-2019-7310 poppler: heap-based buffer over-read in XRef::getEntry in XRef.cc
• BZ - 1683632 - CVE-2019-9200 poppler: heap-based buffer overflow in function ImageStream::getLine() in Stream.cc
• BZ - 1686802 - CVE-2019-9631 poppler: heap-based buffer over-read in function downsample_row_box_filter in CairoRescaleBox.cc
• BZ - 1691724 - CVE-2019-9903 poppler: stack consumption in function Dict::find() in Dict.cc
• BZ - 1696636 - CVE-2019-10871 poppler: heap-based buffer over-read in function PSOutputDev::checkPageSlice in PSOutputDev.cc
• BZ - 1713582 - CVE-2019-12293 poppler: heap-based buffer over-read in JPXStream::init in JPEG2000Stream.cc
• BZ - 1732340 - CVE-2019-9959 poppler: integer overflow in JPXStream::init function leading to memory consumption

CVEs

• CVE-2018-18897
• CVE-2018-20481
• CVE-2018-20551
• CVE-2018-20650
• CVE-2018-20662
• CVE-2019-7310
• CVE-2019-9200
• CVE-2019-9631
• CVE-2019-9903
• CVE-2019-9959
• CVE-2019-10871
• CVE-2019-12293

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate