poppler through version 0.55.0 is vulnerable to an uncontrolled recursion in pdfunite resulting into potential denial-of-service.
Weakness
The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poppler | Freedesktop | * | 0.55.0 (including) |
| Poppler | Ubuntu | devel | * |
| Poppler | Ubuntu | esm-infra/xenial | * |
| Poppler | Ubuntu | trusty | * |
| Poppler | Ubuntu | vivid/stable-phone-overlay | * |
| Poppler | Ubuntu | xenial | * |
| Poppler | Ubuntu | yakkety | * |
| Poppler | Ubuntu | zesty | * |