Package        : poppler
Version        : 0.26.5-2+deb8u6
CVE ID         : CVE-2018-16646


A regression issue has been resolved in the poppler PDF rendering
shared library introduced with version 0.26.5-2+deb8u5.


CVE-2018-16646

    In Poppler 0.68.0, the Parser::getObj() function in Parser.cc may
    cause infinite recursion via a crafted file. A remote attacker can
    leverage this for a DoS attack.

    The previous solution in Debian LTS fixed the above issue in XRef.cc,
    the patches had been obtained from a merge request (#67) on upstream's
    Git development platform. Unfortunately, this merge request was declined
    by upstream and another merge request (#91) got applied instead. The
    fix now directly occurs in the Parser.cc file.

    This version of poppler now ships the changeset that got favorized by
    the poppler upstream developers (MR #91) and drops the patches from
    MR #67.

For Debian 8 "Jessie", this problem has been fixed in version
0.26.5-2+deb8u6.

We recommend that you upgrade your poppler packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

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