Bug 1029858 – VUL-0: CVE-2017-6848: podofo: The PoDoFo::PdfXObject::PdfXObject function in PdfXObject.cpp in PoDoFo 0.9.5allows remote attacker...

Bug 1029858 - (CVE-2017-6848) VUL-0: CVE-2017-6848: podofo: The PoDoFo::PdfXObject::PdfXObject function in PdfXObject.cpp in PoDoFo 0.9.5allows remote attacker...

(CVE-2017-6848)
Summary:	VUL-0: CVE-2017-6848: podofo: The PoDoFo::PdfXObject::PdfXObject function in ...

Status:	NEW
Duplicates:	1027777 (view as bug list)

Classification:	Novell Products
Product:	SUSE Security Incidents
Classification:	Novell Products
Component:	Incidents
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other Other

Priority:	P3 - Medium Severity: Normal
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Assigned To:	Antonio Larrosa
QA Contact:	Security Team bot

URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/181629/
Whiteboard:	CVSSv3:NVD:CVE-2017-6848:5.5:(AV:L/AC...
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Reported:	2017-03-17 10:09 UTC by Victor Pereira
Modified:	2022-04-19 10:36 UTC (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Description Victor Pereira 2017-03-17 10:09:13 UTC

CVE-2017-6848

The PoDoFo::PdfXObject::PdfXObject function in PdfXObject.cpp in PoDoFo 0.9.5
allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference)
via a crafted file.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2017-6848
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q1/602
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2017/CVE-2017-6848.html
http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2017-6848/
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-6848
https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/03/02/podofo-null-pointer-dereference-in-podofopdfxobjectpdfxobject-pdfxobject-cpp/

Comment 1 Johannes Segitz 2018-10-11 08:25:31 UTC

Please submit for this. Thank you

Comment 2 Alexandros Toptsoglou 2019-02-28 15:41:54 UTC

*** Bug 1027777 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Alexander Bergmann 2022-04-19 10:36:03 UTC

Upstream commit:
- http://sourceforge.net/p/podofo/code/1846

This was fixed together with bsc#1027778 / CVE-2017-6847, but not mentioned inside the changes file.

References:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-6847
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-6848

(We will keep this bug open until the changes file reference is fixed.)