CVE-2019-11026

Publication date 8 April 2019

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
poppler	20.10 groovy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	19.10 eoan	Not affected
	19.04 disco	Ignored end of life
	18.10 cosmic	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Ignored
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

mdeslaur

stack overflow due to infinite loop, hardly a security issue needs backporting we will not be fixing this issue in Ubuntu stable releases, marking as ignored

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
poppler	Upstream: 8051f67

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H