CVE-2022-38784

HIGH

Poppler <22.08.0 - RCE

Title source: llm

Description

Poppler prior to and including 22.08.0 contains an integer overflow in the JBIG2 decoder (JBIG2Stream::readTextRegionSeg() in JBIGStream.cc). Processing a specially crafted PDF file or JBIG2 image could lead to a crash or the execution of arbitrary code. This is similar to the vulnerability described by CVE-2022-38171 in Xpdf.

References (14)

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/09/02/11

[Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/jeffssh/CVE-2021-30860

View Writeup ZIP pw:eip

[Exploit, Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/zmanion/Vulnerabilities/blob/main/CVE-2022-38171.md

View Exploit ZIP pw:eip

[Patch, Vendor Advisory] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/merge_requests/1261/diffs?commit_id=27354e9d9696ee2bc063910a6c9a6b27c5184a52

[Third Party Advisory] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00030.html

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BGY72LBJMFAKQWC2XH4MRPIGPQLXTFL6/

[Release Notes, Vendor Advisory] https://poppler.freedesktop.org/releases.html

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202209-21

[Third Party Advisory] https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-38171

[Third Party Advisory] https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5224

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/E5Z2677EQUWVHJLGSH5DQX53EK6MY2M2/

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J546EJUKUOPWA3JSLP7DYNBAU3YGNCCW/

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NLKN3HJKZSGEEKOF57DM7Q3IB74HP5VW/

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TQAO6O2XHPQHNW2MWOCJJ4C3YWS2VV4K/

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8

EPSS 0.0008

EPSS Percentile 24.4%

Attack Vector LOCAL

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-190

Status published

Affected Products (6)

freedesktop/poppler < 22.08.0

debian/debian_linux

debian/debian_linux

fedoraproject/fedora

fedoraproject/fedora

fedoraproject/fedora

Timeline

Published Aug 30, 2022

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026