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Insecure functionality In muhammara

Description

muhammara and hummus vulnerable to denial of service by NULL pointer dereference

Impact

The package muhammara before 2.6.1, from 3.0.0 and before 3.1.1; all versions of package hummus are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) when supplied with a maliciously crafted PDF file to be parsed.

Patches

It has been patched in 3.1.1 and has been backported to 2.6.1 Hummus has a patch in 1.0.111.

Workarounds

Do not process files from untrusted sources or update.

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-25892 https://github.com/galkahana/HummusJS/issues/463 https://github.com/julianhille/MuhammaraJS/issues/214 https://github.com/julianhille/MuhammaraJS/commit/1890fb555eaf171db79b73fdc3ea543bbd63c002 https://github.com/julianhille/MuhammaraJS/commit/90b278d09f16062d93a4160ef0a54d449d739c51

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

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