Bug 489720 – <app-text/poppler-0.24.3 : multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-{4473,4474})

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Security

[Description Agostino Sarubbo 2013-10-29 08:26:37 UTC]

> - Stack based buffer overflow, affecting poppler in the utils
> section (reported by Daniel Kahn Gillmor, fixed in poppler 0.24.2)

Please use CVE-2013-4473 for the Stack based buffer overflow

> - User controlled format string, affecting poppler in the utils 
> section (reported by Daniel Kahn Gillmor and Pedro Ribeiro, fixed
> in poppler 0.24.3)

Please use CVE-2013-4474 for the User controlled format string

[Comment 1 Andreas K. Hüttel 2013-10-29 08:56:43 UTC]

Now this one will need a libreoffice-bin rebuild...

[Comment 2 Andreas K. Hüttel 2013-10-29 09:05:32 UTC]

2.24.3 bumped

[Comment 3 Mikle Kolyada (RETIRED) 2013-10-29 17:12:11 UTC]

arches, please test and mark stable:

=app-text/poppler-2.24.3

target KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 ppc ppc64 sparc x86"

[Comment 4 Andreas K. Hüttel 2013-10-29 21:39:07 UTC]

(In reply to Mikle Kolyada from comment #3)
> arches, please test and mark stable:
> 
> =app-text/poppler-2.24.3
> 
> target KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 ppc ppc64 sparc x86"

and its dependency 

=net-print/cups-filters-1.0.36-r1

same targets... (note, -r1 and NOT -r2 which requires newer gs)

[Comment 5 Agostino Sarubbo 2013-10-31 15:55:29 UTC]

amd64 / x86 stable

[Comment 6 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2013-11-01 14:38:21 UTC]

*** Bug 490046 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 7 Agostino Sarubbo 2013-11-01 20:58:00 UTC]

alpha stable

[Comment 8 Agostino Sarubbo 2013-11-02 07:32:26 UTC]

ppc stable

[Comment 9 Agostino Sarubbo 2013-11-02 07:33:25 UTC]

ppc64 stable

[Comment 10 Agostino Sarubbo 2013-11-02 08:03:37 UTC]

arm stable

[Comment 11 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2013-11-02 16:24:23 UTC]

Stable for HPPA.

[Comment 12 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn 2013-11-03 00:31:45 UTC]

Re-adding alpha/arm/ppc/ppc64 for cups-filters

[Comment 13 Agostino Sarubbo 2013-11-03 06:22:42 UTC]

alpha stable

[Comment 14 Agostino Sarubbo 2013-11-03 06:22:48 UTC]

arm stable

[Comment 15 Agostino Sarubbo 2013-11-03 06:22:56 UTC]

ppc stable

[Comment 16 Agostino Sarubbo 2013-11-03 06:23:03 UTC]

ppc64 stable

[Comment 17 Agostino Sarubbo 2013-11-12 20:13:54 UTC]

ia64 stable

[Comment 18 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot 2013-11-27 11:12:57 UTC]

CVE-2013-4474 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-4474):
  Format string vulnerability in the extractPages function in
  utils/pdfseparate.cc in poppler before 024.2 allows remote attackers to
  cause a denial of service (crash) via format string specifiers in a
  destination filename.

CVE-2013-4473 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-4473):
  Stack-based buffer overflow in the extractPages function in
  utils/pdfseparate.cc in poppler before 0.24.2 allows remote attackers to
  cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a
  source filename.

[Comment 19 Agostino Sarubbo 2013-12-17 15:02:56 UTC]

sparc stable.

Maintainer(s), please cleanup.
Security, please add it to the existing request, or file a new one.

[Comment 20 Mikle Kolyada (RETIRED) 2013-12-17 17:07:08 UTC]

glsa request filed

[Comment 21 Andreas K. Hüttel 2013-12-17 17:27:55 UTC]

All vulnerable versions have been removed.

[Comment 22 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot 2014-01-21 19:31:39 UTC]

This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201401-21 at http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201401-21.xml
by GLSA coordinator Sean Amoss (ackle).