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ubuntu-cve-2024-6239

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2024-06-21 14:15

Modified

2026-04-22 07:47

Summary

Details

A flaw was found in the Poppler's Pdfinfo utility. This issue occurs when using -dests parameter with pdfinfo utility. By using certain malformed input files, an attacker could cause the utility to crash, leading to a denial of service.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

7.5 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

N/A (UNKNOWN)

low

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-6239	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-6239	REPORT
	https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-6239	REPORT
	https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6915-1	ADVISORY

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CVE-2024-6239 (GCVE-0-2024-6239)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-06-21 13:28 – Updated: 2025-11-20 19:54

Title

Poppler: pdfinfo: crash in broken documents when using -dests parameter

Summary

Severity

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)

CWE

CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation

Assigner

redhat

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:5305	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9167	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-6239	vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2293594	issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT

Impacted products

8 products

Vendor	Product	Version
		Affected: 24.06.0 , ≤ 24.06.1 (semver)
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Unaffected: 0:20.11.0-12.el8_10 , < * (rpm) cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::crb cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	Unaffected: 0:21.01.0-21.el9 , < * (rpm) cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::crb
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

Date Public

2024-06-06 09:00

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usn-6915-1

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2024-07-24 20:07

Modified

2026-04-22 07:37

Summary

poppler vulnerability

Details

It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled certain malformed PDF. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6915-1	ADVISORY
	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-6239	REPORT

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ubuntu-cve-2024-6239

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

CVE-2024-6239 (GCVE-0-2024-6239)

usn-6915-1

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

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