Bug 1578777 (CVE-2017-18267)

Summary: CVE-2017-18267 poppler: Infinite recursion in fofi/FoFiType1C.cc:FoFiType1C::cvtGlyph() function allows denial of service
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Adam Mariš <amaris>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: alexl, caolanm, feborges, john.j5live, manisandro, mclasen, mkasik, rdieter, rhughes, rstrode, sandmann
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Bug Depends On: 1578779, 1578780, 1578781, 1579179, 1579180    
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Description Adam Mariš 2018-05-16 11:47:10 UTC
The FoFiType1C::cvtGlyph function in fofi/FoFiType1C.cc in Poppler through 0.64.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion) via a crafted PDF file, as demonstrated by pdftops.

Upstream bug:

https://bugzilla.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103238

Upstream patch:

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=60b4fe65bc9dc9b82bbadf0be2e3781be796a13d

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2018-05-16 11:47:41 UTC
Created mingw-poppler tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1578781]


Created poppler tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1578780]

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2018-10-30 07:42:40 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2018:3140 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3140