Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-11256 - NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Podofo Project Podofo 0.9.5
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
An issue was discovered in PoDoFo 0.9.5. The function PdfDocument::Append() in PdfDocument.cpp in PoDoFo 0.9.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted PDF document.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2018-6B9320D9C9.NASL description This update fixes multiple security vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-5783, CVE-2018-11254, CVE-2018-11255, CVE-2018-11256, CVE-2018-12982, CVE-2018-14320, CVE-2018-19532 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2019-01-03 plugin id 120503 published 2019-01-03 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/120503 title Fedora 29 : mingw-podofo / podofo (2018-6b9320d9c9) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2019-0393-1.NASL description This update for podofo fixes the following issues : These security issues were fixed : CVE-2017-6845: The PoDoFo::PdfColor::operator function allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted file (bsc#1027779). CVE-2018-5308: Properly validate memcpy arguments in the PdfMemoryOutputStream::Write function to prevent remote attackers from causing a denial-of-service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted pdf file (bsc#1075772) CVE-2018-5295: Prevent integer overflow in the PdfXRefStreamParserObject::ParseStream function that allowed remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted pdf file (bsc#1075026). CVE-2017-6845: The PoDoFo::PdfColor::operator function allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted file (bsc#1027779). CVE-2018-5309: Prevent integer overflow in the PdfObjectStreamParserObject::ReadObjectsFromStream function that allowed remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted pdf file (bsc#1075322). CVE-2018-5296: Prevent uncontrolled memory allocation in the PdfParser::ReadXRefSubsection function that allowed remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted pdf file (bsc#1075021). CVE-2017-7381: Prevent NULL pointer dereference that allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted PDF document (bsc#1032020). CVE-2017-7382: Prevent NULL pointer dereference that allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted PDF document (bsc#1032021). CVE-2017-7383: Prevent NULL pointer dereference that allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted PDF document (bsc#1032022). CVE-2018-11256: Prevent NULL pointer dereference that allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted PDF document (bsc#1096889). CVE-2018-5783: Prevent uncontrolled memory allocation in the PoDoFo::PdfVecObjects::Reserve function that allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted pdf file (bsc#1076962). The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 122229 published 2019-02-15 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/122229 title SUSE SLED12 Security Update : podofo (SUSE-SU-2019:0393-1)