CVE-2019-11026 Denial of service in n/a
An attacker can cause a denial of service via infinite recursion in the Poppler PDF library's font scanning functionality.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2019-11026?
CVE-2019-11026 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 8 Apr 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
FontInfoScanner::scanFonts in FontInfo.cc in Poppler 0.75.0 has infinite recursion, leading to a call to the error function in Error.cc.
Weakness: CWE-674
Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-11026?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Freedesktop Poppler.
How do I fix CVE-2019-11026?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
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-2019-11026 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-11026 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Fedoraproject Fedora
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2019-11026, GHSA-5vr3-7g3c-x85q, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-11026.