PoDoFo::Impose::PdfTranslator::setSource() in pdftranslator.cpp in PoDoFo 0.9.6 has a NULL pointer dereference that can (for example) be triggered by sending a crafted PDF file to the podofoimpose binary. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED12 / SLED_SAP12 / SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:3541-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2015-8981: Fixed heap overflow in the function ReadXRefSubsection (bsc#1023190)
     - CVE-2017-6840: Fixed invalid memory read in ColorChanger::GetColorFromStack (colorchanger.cpp)     (bsc#1027787)
     - CVE-2017-6841: Fixed NULL pointer dereference in     GraphicsStack::TGraphicsStackElement::~TGraphicsStackElement (graphicsstack.h) (bsc#1027786)
     - CVE-2017-6842: Fixed NULL pointer dereference in ColorChanger::GetColorFromStack (colorchanger.cpp)     (bsc#1027785)
     - CVE-2017-6845: Fixed NULL pointer dereference in     GraphicsStack::TGraphicsStackElement::SetNonStrokingColorSpace (graphicsstack.h) (bsc#1027779)
     - CVE-2017-6849: Fixed NULL pointer dereference in PoDoFo::PdfColorGray::~PdfColorGray (PdfColor.cpp)     (bsc#1027776)
     - CVE-2017-8378: Fixed denial of service (application crash) vectors related to m_offsets.size     (PdfParser::ReadObjects func in base/PdfParser.cpp) (bsc#1037000)
     - CVE-2018-5308: Fixed Undefined behavior  (memcpy with NULL pointer) in PdfMemoryOutputStream::Write     (src/base/PdfOutputStream.cpp) (bsc#1075772)
     - CVE-2019-10723: Fixed Memory leak in PdfPagesTreeCache class in doc/PdfPagesTreeCache.cpp (bsc#1131544)
     - CVE-2019-9199: Fixed NULL pointer dereference in function PoDoFo:Impose:PdfTranslator:setSource() in     pdftranslator.cpp (bsc#1127855)

     - Fixed NULL pointer dereference in PdfInfo::GuessFormat (pdfinfo.cpp) (bsc#1023072)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:2137-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2019-9199: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference in podofoimpose (bsc#1127855)
    - CVE-2018-20797: Fixed an excessive memory allocation in PoDoFo:podofo_calloc (bsc#1127514)
    - CVE-2019-10723: Fixed a memory leak in PdfPagesTreeCache (bsc#1131544)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Backport security fixes: CVE-2019-9199, CVE-2019-9687.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
208427	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : podofo (SUSE-SU-2024:3541-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
200847	SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : podofo (SUSE-SU-2024:2137-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
124525	Fedora 30 : mingw-podofo / podofo (2019-a1dc51a9e2)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
123472	Fedora 29 : mingw-podofo / podofo (2019-023ea18e20)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical

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