Vulnerability of Poppler: assertion error via Object.h

Synthesis of the vulnerability

An attacker can force an assertion error via Object.h of Poppler, in order to trigger a denial of service.

Impacted software: Debian, Fedora, RHEL, Ubuntu.

Severity of this computer vulnerability: 1/4.

Creation date: 19/11/2018.

Références of this announce: CVE-2018-19058, DLA-1706-1, DLA-2440-1, FEDORA-2018-12b934e224, FEDORA-2018-54ed26a423, FEDORA-2018-679f8aba03, FEDORA-2018-e805688895, RHSA-2019:2022-01, USN-3837-1, USN-3837-2, VIGILANCE-VUL-27814.

Description of the vulnerability

An attacker can force an assertion error via Object.h of Poppler, in order to trigger a denial of service.
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This weakness note impacts software or systems such as Debian, Fedora, RHEL, Ubuntu.

Our Vigil@nce team determined that the severity of this threat note is low.

The trust level is of type confirmed by the editor, with an origin of document.

An attacker with a expert ability can exploit this computer weakness.

Solutions for this threat

Debian 8: new poppler packages.
New packages are available:
Debian 8: poppler 0.26.5-2+deb8u8

Debian 9: new poppler packages.
New packages are available:
Debian 9: poppler 0.48.0-2+deb9u4

Fedora: new mingw-poppler packages.
New packages are available:
Fedora 28: mingw-poppler 0.62.0-2.fc28
Fedora 29: mingw-poppler 0.67.0-2.fc29

Fedora: new poppler packages.
New packages are available:
Fedora 28: poppler 0.62.0-10.fc28
Fedora 29: poppler 0.67.0-6.fc29

RHEL 7: new poppler packages.
New packages are available:
RHEL 7: poppler 0.26.5-38.el7

Ubuntu: new poppler packages.
New packages are available:
  Ubuntu 18.10: poppler 0.68.0-0ubuntu1.3
  Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: poppler 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.5
  Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: poppler 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.10
  Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: poppler 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.14

Wind River Linux: solution (28/11/2018).
The solution is indicated in information sources.
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