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Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 11:07:43 +0200
From: Tomas Hoger <thoger@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: coley <coley@...re.org>
Subject: Re: CVE requests: Poppler, Quassel, Pyfribidi,
Overkill, DocUtils, FireGPG, Wireshark
On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 15:16:48 +0200 Tomas Hoger wrote:
> 2fe825deac Prevents use of random value for PDF object that is not of
> numeric type as expected. This patch, however, does not seem to guard
> against invalid numeric values, so if some random value used due to an
> incorrect object type can cause crash later, I'd expect malicious
> numeric value to be able to achieve the same.
Oh, I was too focused on the value and missed OBJECT_TYPE_CHECK checks
that cause abort() when object is not numeric. The impact is limited
to unexpected application termination.
--
Tomas Hoger / Red Hat Security Response Team
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