CVE-2022-37050 Denial of service in n/a
Attackers can crash the application by providing a crafted PDF file with malformed xref data, affecting users of the Poppler library.
- 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-2022-37050?
CVE-2022-37050 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 22 Aug 2023. 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
In Poppler 22.07.0, PDFDoc::savePageAs in PDFDoc.c callows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (application crashes with SIGABRT) by crafting a PDF file in which the xref data structure is mishandled in getCatalog processing. Note that this vulnerability is caused by the incomplete patch of CVE-2018-20662.
Weakness: CWE-400
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-37050?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Debian Debian Linux, Freedesktop Poppler.
How do I fix CVE-2022-37050?
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-2022-37050 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2022-37050 exists.
Other vulnerabilities in Debian Debian Linux
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-37050, GHSA-j6x9-fqfr-79q4, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-37050.