CVE-2010-4654 Memory corruption in poppler

High 7.8 Published Updated

Malformed commands in poppler can corrupt the internal stack, potentially leading to denial of service or arbitrary code execution.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
A user has to click or open something
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2010-4654?

CVE-2010-4654 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 13 Nov 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

poppler before 0.16.3 has malformed commands that may cause corruption of the internal stack.

Weakness: CWE-74

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-4654?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Freedesktop Poppler.

How do I fix CVE-2010-4654?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2010-4654 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-4654 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Debian Debian Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2010-4654, GHSA-366c-cfp4-w5fc, UBUNTU-CVE-2010-4654.

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