CVE-2018-20650: Input Validation

First published: Tue Jan 01 2019(Updated: )

A flaw was found in Poppler 0.72.0. A reachable Object::dictLookup assertion in FileSpec class in FileSpec.cc file allows attackers to cause a denial of service due to the lack of a check for the dict data type. References: <a href="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/704">https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/704</a> Upstream Patch: <a href="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/de0c0b8324e776f0b851485e0fc9622fc35695b7">https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/de0c0b8324e776f0b851485e0fc9622fc35695b7</a>

Credit: cve@mitre.org cve@mitre.org

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