Bug 1578777 – CVE-2017-18267 poppler: Infinite recursion in fofi/FoFiType1C.cc:FoFiType1C::cvtGlyph() function allows denial of service

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Bug 1578777 - (CVE-2017-18267) CVE-2017-18267 poppler: Infinite recursion in fofi/FoFiType1C.cc:FoFiType1C::cvtGlyph() function allows denial of service

Summary:	CVE-2017-18267 poppler: Infinite recursion in fofi/FoFiType1C.cc:FoFiType1C::...

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2017-18267

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Hardware:	All Linux

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Depends On:	1578781 1579179 1578779 1578780 1579180
Blocks:	1578783
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Reported:	2018-05-16 07:47 EDT by Adam Mariš
Modified:	2018-10-30 03:42 EDT (History)
CC List:	11 users (show)

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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2018:3140	None	None	None	2018-10-30 03:42 EDT

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Description Adam Mariš 2018-05-16 07:47:10 EDT

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 07:47:41 EDT

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 03:42:40 EDT

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

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