Bug#1074146: poppler: CVE-2024-6239

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: poppler
Version: 24.02.0-5
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1489
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil at debian.org, Debian Security Team <team at security.debian.org>

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for poppler.

CVE-2024-6239[0]:
| A flaw was found in the Poppler's Pdfinfo utility. This issue occurs
| when using -dests parameter with pdfinfo utility. By using certain
| malformed input files, an attacker could cause the utility to crash,
| leading to a denial of service.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-6239
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-6239
[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1489

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore