CVE-2022-37050

MEDIUM

Freedesktop Poppler - Denial of Service

Title source: rule

Description

In Poppler 22.07.0, PDFDoc::savePageAs in PDFDoc.c callows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (application crashes with SIGABRT) by crafting a PDF file in which the xref data structure is mishandled in getCatalog processing. Note that this vulnerability is caused by the incomplete patch of CVE-2018-20662.

References (4)

[Patch] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/commit/dcd5bd8238ea448addd102ff045badd0aca1b990

[Exploit, Issue Tracking] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1274

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00022.html

[Mailing List] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00037.html

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0006

EPSS Percentile 19.6%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-400

Status published

Affected Products (2)

freedesktop/poppler

debian/debian_linux

Timeline

Published Aug 22, 2023

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026