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
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]
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.
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
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