69064 : Poppler Gfx::getPos PDF Handling Uninitialized Pointer Dereference DoS
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2010-09-24

Description

<em style='font-weight:bold;'>(Description Provided by <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2010-3702" target="_blank">CVE</a>)</em> : The Gfx::getPos function in the PDF parser in xpdf before 3.02pl5, poppler 0.8.7 and possibly other versions up to 0.15.1, CUPS, kdegraphics, and possibly other products allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unknown vectors that trigger an uninitialized pointer dereference.

Classification

Attack Type: Denial of Service
Impact: Loss of Availability

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 6.8
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2010-11-08 | Disagree?

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