Bug#913182: poppler: CVE-2018-19060

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: poppler
Version: 0.69.0-2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch security upstream
Forwarded: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/660

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for poppler.

CVE-2018-19060[0]:
| An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.71.0. There is a NULL pointer
| dereference in goo/GooString.h, will lead to denial of service, as
| demonstrated by utils/pdfdetach.cc not validating a filename of an
| embedded file before constructing a save path.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-19060
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-19060

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore