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.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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. (CVE-2018-11256)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

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.

The remote Fedora 29 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2018-6b9320d9c9 advisory.

    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



Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
254367	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-11256	Nessus	Misc.	medium
122229	SUSE SLED12 Security Update : podofo (SUSE-SU-2019:0393-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
120503	Fedora 29 : mingw-podofo / podofo (2018-6b9320d9c9)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

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