CVE-2019-10723 Denial of service in n/a
An attacker can cause excessive memory allocation in the PoDoFo library by providing an unvalidated initial size, leading to a denial of service.
- 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-2019-10723?
CVE-2019-10723 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Podofo Project Podofo, published on 3 Apr 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
An issue was discovered in PoDoFo 0.9.6. The PdfPagesTreeCache class in doc/PdfPagesTreeCache.cpp has an attempted excessive memory allocation because nInitialSize is not validated.
Weakness: CWE-770
Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-10723?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Podofo Project Podofo.
How do I fix CVE-2019-10723?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2019-10723 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-10723 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Podofo Project Podofo
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2019-10723, GHSA-89jq-v4mx-wp6f, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-10723.