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Reachable Assertion

CVE-2022-37051

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in Poppler versions prior to 22.08.0. There is a reachable abort which leads to Denial of Service because the main function in "pdfunite.cc" lacks a stream check before saving an embedded file.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-617 - Reachable Assertion

The product contains an assert() or similar statement that can be triggered by an attacker, which leads to an application exit or other behavior that is more severe than necessary.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published