RHSA-2020:1074 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for poppler and evince is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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.

The evince packages provide a simple multi-page document viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF), PostScript (PS), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) files, and, with additional back-ends, also the Device Independent File format (DVI) files.

Security Fix(es):

• poppler: integer overflow in Parser::makeStream in Parser.cc (CVE-2018-21009)
• 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: integer overflow in JPXStream::init function leading to memory consumption (CVE-2019-9959)
• evince: uninitialized memory use in function tiff_document_render() and tiff_document_get_thumbnail() (CVE-2019-11459)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8 Release Notes linked from 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 Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• 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 - 1716295 - CVE-2019-11459 evince: uninitialized memory use in function tiff_document_render() and tiff_document_get_thumbnail()
• BZ - 1732340 - CVE-2019-9959 poppler: integer overflow in JPXStream::init function leading to memory consumption
• BZ - 1753850 - CVE-2018-21009 poppler: integer overflow in Parser::makeStream in Parser.cc

CVEs

• CVE-2018-21009
• CVE-2019-9959
• CVE-2019-10871
• CVE-2019-11459
• CVE-2019-12293

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.8_release_notes/index