National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-3703

Overview

The PostScriptFunction::PostScriptFunction function in poppler/Function.cc in the PDF parser in poppler 0.8.7 and possibly other versions up to 0.15.1, and possibly other products, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a PDF file that triggers an uninitialized pointer dereference.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639356

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639356

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-1005-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1005-1

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2010:0859

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0859.html

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20101004 Re: CVE requests: Poppler, Quassel, Pyfribidi, Overkill, DocUtils, FireGPG, Wireshark

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/04/6

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2010:231

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:231

External Source: SLACKWARE

Name: SSA:2010-324-01

Hyperlink:http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2010&m=slackware-security.571720

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 42357

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/42357

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2010:024

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-12/msg00006.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2010-15981

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/049545.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2010-15911

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/049523.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2010-15857

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/049392.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=bf2055088a3a2d3bb3d3c37d464954ec1a25771f

Hyperlink:http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=bf2055088a3a2d3bb3d3c37d464954ec1a25771f