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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: 27621-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27621: Poppler's replacement is ABI-incompatible with the original
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2017 21:48:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170710014829.GA11826@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pod98frg.fsf@netris.org>

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On Sun, Jul 09, 2017 at 05:25:07PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> They did, however, cherry-pick an upstream patch to fix a null pointer
> dereference bug in 0.52.0.  I'll look into adding this patch to our
> poppler.

Thanks! Let us know how it goes.

> FWIW, Fedora considers CVE-2017-9775 to be of low severity:
> 
>   https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-9775

The disclosure on the freedesktop bug tracker [0] says:

"Due to some restrictions in the lines after the bug, an attacker can't
control the values written in the stack so it unlikely this could lead
to a code execution."

So, not great but, if their estimation is right, not that bad either.

[0] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101540

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-10  1:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-08 11:08 bug#27621: [PATCH] gnu: inkscape: Use ungrafted poppler input Ben Woodcroft
2017-07-08 11:08 ` Ben Woodcroft
2017-07-08 22:04 ` bug#27621: Poppler's replacement is ABI-incompatible with the original Mark H Weaver
2017-07-09  6:30   ` Leo Famulari
2017-07-09 21:25     ` Mark H Weaver
2017-07-10  1:48       ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2017-07-10 17:07         ` Mark H Weaver

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