Bug 1326225 (CVE-2015-8868)

Summary:	CVE-2015-8868 poppler: heap buffer overflow in ExponentialFunction
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	feborges, mkasik, rdieter, slawomir
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	poppler 0.40.0	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	A heap-buffer overflow was found in the poppler library. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause applications that use poppler (such as Evince) to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code when opened.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2019-06-08 02:50:36 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
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Bug Depends On:	1299506, 1326226, 1326228, 1341030, 1343078, 1343079
Bug Blocks:	1326229

Description Andrej Nemec 2016-04-12 08:21:16 UTC

A heap buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the poppler library. A maliciously crafted file could cause the application to crash.

Upstream fix:

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=b3425dd3261679958cd56c0f71995c15d2124433

References (reproducer attached):

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/56

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-04-12 08:21:43 UTC

Created mingw-poppler tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1326228]

Comment 2 Andrej Nemec 2016-04-12 08:21:48 UTC

Created poppler tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1326226]

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-03 19:04:46 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2016:2580 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2580.html