CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-11026

Uncontrolled Recursion

Published: Apr 08, 2019 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
4 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
NEGLIGIBLE

FontInfoScanner::scanFonts in FontInfo.cc in Poppler 0.75.0 has infinite recursion, leading to a call to the error function in Error.cc.

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 0.75.0 (including) 0.75.0 (including)
Poppler Ubuntu bionic *
Poppler Ubuntu cosmic *
Poppler Ubuntu disco *
Poppler Ubuntu esm-infra/bionic *
Poppler Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Poppler Ubuntu trusty *
Poppler Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References