Bug 639356 (CVE-2010-3703)

Summary:	CVE-2010-3703 poppler: use of initialized pointer in PostScriptFunction
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Tomas Hoger <thoger>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified	CC:	mjc, mkasik, sparks
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	639859, 639860, 639861
Bug Blocks:	638835

Description Tomas Hoger 2010-10-01 14:30:00 UTC

poppler git commit bf2055088a corrects a possible use of an uninitialized pointer in PostScriptFunction, which can cause crash or memory corruption.

Upstream git commit:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=bf2055088a3a2d3bb3d3c37d464954ec1a25771f

This problem does not affect xpdf or other applications embedding xpdf code.  It only affects recent poppler versions, not before commit:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=b1d4efb082ac3dadd7752a557e5aeb6651e17471

Reference:
http://secunia.com/advisories/41596/

Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2010-10-04 08:56:22 UTC

Created poppler tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 639861]

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2010-11-10 19:18:01 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2010:0859 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0859.html