Bug#1042811: poppler: CVE-2023-34872: crash in pdftohtml

Salvatore Bonaccorso carnil at debian.org
Tue Aug 1 09:46:47 BST 2023


Source: poppler
Version: 22.12.0-2
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1399
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil at debian.org, Debian Security Team <team at security.debian.org>

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for poppler.

CVE-2023-34872[0]:
| A vulnerability in Outline.cc for Poppler prior to 23.06.0 allows a
| remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) (crash) via a
| crafted PDF file in OutlineItem::open.


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-2023-34872
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-34872
[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1399
[2] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/commit/591235c8b6c65a2eee88991b9ae73490fd9afdfe

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore

-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled



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