Bug 917108 (CVE-2013-1788)

Summary:	CVE-2013-1788 poppler: multiple invalid memory access flaws
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Vincent Danen <vdanen>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	mkasik, rdieter
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	917113
Bug Blocks:	917112

Description Vincent Danen 2013-03-01 18:05:34 UTC

A number of invalid memory access flaws were reported in poppler (fixed in version 0.22.1):

- Fix invalid memory access in 1150.pdf.asan.8.69 [1].
- Fix invalid memory access in 2030.pdf.asan.69.463 [2].
- Fix another invalid memory access in 1091.pdf.asan.72.42 [3].
- Fix invalid memory accesses in 1091.pdf.asan.72.42 [4].
- Fix invalid memory accesses in 1036.pdf.asan.23.17 [5].

[1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?h=poppler-0.22&id=8b6dc55e530b2f5ede6b9dfb64aafdd1d5836492
[2] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?h=poppler-0.22&id=e14b6e9c13d35c9bd1e0c50906ace8e707816888
[3] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?h=poppler-0.22&id=0388837f01bc467045164f9ddaff787000a8caaa
[4] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?h=poppler-0.22&id=957aa252912cde85d76c41e9710b33425a82b696
[5] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?h=poppler-0.22&id=bbc2d8918fe234b7ef2c480eb148943922cc0959

Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2013-03-01 18:16:44 UTC

Created poppler tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 917113]

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2013-03-14 02:44:36 UTC

poppler-0.20.2-10.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2013-03-14 02:47:36 UTC

poppler-0.18.4-4.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 4 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-04-30 05:09:15 UTC

After analysis of this issue, it was found that all of the commits mentioned in the description of this flaw are manifests of different class of vulnerabilities.

[4] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?h=poppler-0.22&id=957aa252912cde85d76c41e9710b33425a82b696
[5] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?h=poppler-0.22&id=bbc2d8918fe234b7ef2c480eb148943922cc0959

Are null pointer de-references in the slash backend, and therefore need to be moved to CVE-2013-1789.

[3] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?h=poppler-0.22&id=0388837f01bc467045164f9ddaff787000a8caaa

is OOB Read in DCTStream.

[1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?h=poppler-0.22&id=8b6dc55e530b2f5ede6b9dfb64aafdd1d5836492

is OOB Read in splash backend

[2] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?h=poppler-0.22&id=e14b6e9c13d35c9bd1e0c50906ace8e707816888

is OOB Write by one byte on the stack

Comment 5 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-04-30 05:15:25 UTC

This issue affects the version of poppler as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

Comment 7 Vincent Danen 2015-02-26 23:04:28 UTC

Statement:

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.