Invalid memory read in the PoDoFo::PdfVariant::DelayedLoad() function in PdfVariant.h in PoDoFo 0.9.6-rc1 allows remote attackers to have denial-of-service impact via a crafted file.

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

  - Invalid memory read in the PoDoFo::PdfVariant::DelayedLoad() function in PdfVariant.h in PoDoFo 0.9.6-rc1     allows remote attackers to have denial-of-service impact via a crafted file. (CVE-2018-12982)

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

This update for podofo fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

CVE-2017-8054: Fixed a vulnerability in PdfPagesTree::GetPageNodeFromArray function which could allow remote attackers to cause Denial of Service (bsc#1035596).

CVE-2018-5783: Fixed an uncontrolled memory allocation in PdfVecObjects::Reserve function (bsc#1076962).

CVE-2018-11255: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference in PdfPage::GetPageNumber() function which could lead to Denial of Service (bsc#1096890).

CVE-2018-20751: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference in crop_page function (bsc#1124357).

CVE-2018-12982: Fixed an invalid memory read in PdfVariant::DelayedLoad() function which could allow remote attackers to cause Denial of Service (bsc#1099720).

Fixed a buffer overflow in TestEncrypt function.

Fixed a NULL pointer dereference in PdfTranslator-setTarget function.

Fixed a heap-based buffer overflow PdfVariant:DelayedLoad function.

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
258210	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-12982	Nessus	Misc.	medium
126739	SUSE SLED12 Security Update : podofo (SUSE-SU-2019:1849-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
120503	Fedora 29 : mingw-podofo / podofo (2018-6b9320d9c9)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

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