Bug 1082842 (CVE-2018-7454) - VUL-1: CVE-2018-7454: xpdf: A NULL pointer dereference in XFAForm::scanFields in XFAForm.cc allows attackers to launch denial of service via a specific pdf file
Summary: VUL-1: CVE-2018-7454: xpdf: A NULL pointer dereference in XFAForm::scanFields...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: CVE-2018-7454
Product: SUSE Security Incidents
Classification: Novell Products
Component: Incidents (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Other
: P4 - Low : Normal
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Assignee: Peter Simons
QA Contact: Security Team bot
URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/200814/
Whiteboard: CVSSv3:SUSE:CVE-2018-7454:3.3:(AV:L/...
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Blocks: 1133493
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Reported: 2018-02-26 13:08 UTC by Karol Babioch
Modified: 2023-06-15 12:24 UTC (History)
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Description Karol Babioch 2018-02-26 13:08:49 UTC 
CVE-2018-7454

A NULL pointer dereference in XFAForm::scanFields in XFAForm.cc in xpdf 4.00
allows attackers to launch denial of service via a specific pdf file, as
demonstrated by pdftohtml.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2018-7454
http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2018-7454/
Comment 1 Peter Simons 2018-06-21 09:14:54 UTC 
No fix for this issue was published. According to the web forum, upstream tried to remedy this issue by

> adding a test for nComps==0 when reading the SIZ segment

..., but this turned out to be insufficient. After some back and forth, the solution apparently is to disable 0 page PDF files altogether:

> Zero-page PDF files are kind of an odd case. I'll add a test in XFAForm::load that bails out early if nPages==0.

I looked at the code of XFAForm::load() in the 4.00 release, trying to re-implement the fix, but unfortunately there is no obvious way to write that test. (nPages is an attribute deep inside of a XFAForm object, so the object has to be constructed already before I can access it, which seems too late for the test to be meaningful).

Upstream was asked whether they'll release the fix -- or a new version that contains it --, and they said:

> This will be in the next release. I don't have a schedule for that yet.

That was over a year ago.
Comment 2 Petr Gajdos 2023-06-12 11:57:27 UTC 
https://github.com/skysider/FuzzVuln/blob/master/xpdf_pdftohtml_null_pointer_dereference_JPXStream_fillReadBuf.pdf

I do not get any crash or valgrind error with pdftohtml from devel,15,12,11sp1/poppler.

Since xpdf is not maintained anymore I suggest to close.