Asymmetric denial of service In poppler

Description

In Poppler 0.72.0, PDFDoc::setup in PDFDoc.cc allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (application crash caused by Object.h SIGABRT, because of a wrong return value from PDFDoc::setup) by crafting a PDF file in which an xref data structure is mishandled during extractPDFSubtype processing.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

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