Bug#913180: poppler: CVE-2018-19059

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: poppler
Version: 0.69.0-2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch security upstream
Forwarded: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/661

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for poppler.

CVE-2018-19059[0]:
| An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.71.0. There is a out-of-bounds
| read in EmbFile::save2 in FileSpec.cc, will lead to denial of service,
| as demonstrated by utils/pdfdetach.cc not validating embedded files
| before save attempts.

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-2018-19059
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-19059

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore