Bug 1626618 (CVE-2018-16646)

Summary: CVE-2018-16646 poppler: infinite recursion in Parser::getObj function in Parser.cc
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Laura Pardo <lpardo>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: alexl, feborges, john.j5live, manisandro, mclasen, mkasik, rdieter, rhughes, rstrode, sandmann, tpelka
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Bug Depends On: 1626620, 1626621, 1626623, 1640295    
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Description Laura Pardo 2018-09-07 18:01:45 UTC
A flaw was found in Poppler 0.68.0, the Parser::getObj() function in Parser.cc may cause infinite recursion via a crafted file. A remote attacker can leverage this for a DoS attack.


References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1622951

Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-09-07 18:02:23 UTC
Created mingw-poppler tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1626621]


Created poppler tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1626620]

Comment 3 Scott Gayou 2018-10-17 16:49:56 UTC
Reproduces on RHEL-7.

```Syntax Error (1452): Dictionary key must be a name object
Syntax Error (1454): Dictionary key must be a name object
Syntax Error (1463): Dictionary key must be a name object
Syntax Error (1470): Dictionary key must be a name object
Syntax Error (1476): Dictionary key must be a name object
Syntax Error (1540): Dictionary key must be a name object
Syntax Error (2213): Dictionary key must be a name object
Syntax Error (2223): Dictionary key must be a name object
Syntax Error (2223): Dictionary key must be a name object
Syntax Error (2250): Dictionary key must be a name object
Syntax Error (2253): Dictionary key must be a name object
^C
real	8m32.542s
user	0m23.545s
sys	0m14.576s
```

Gave up after 8 minutes.

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2019-08-06 12:02:51 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2019:2022 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2022

Comment 11 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-08-06 13:19:22 UTC
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-16646