Headline
GHSA-frp9-2v6r-gj97: muhammara and hummus vulnerable to null pointer dereference on bad response object
Impact
The package muhammara before 2.6.0; all versions of package hummus are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) when supplied with a maliciously crafted PDF file to be appended to another.
Patches
It has been patched in 2.6.0 for muhammara and not at all for hummus
Workarounds
Do not process files from untrusted sources
References
PR: https://github.com/julianhille/MuhammaraJS/pull/194 Issue: https://github.com/julianhille/MuhammaraJS/issues/191 Issue in hummus: https://github.com/galkahana/HummusJS/issues/293
Outline differences to https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-25892
The difference is one is in src/deps/PDFWriter/PDFParser.cpp and the other is PDFDocumentHandler.cpp both is a null pointer but for different cases
muhammara and hummus vulnerable to null pointer dereference on bad response object
High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Nov 1, 2022 • Updated Nov 1, 2022
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The package muhammara before 2.6.0; all versions of package hummus are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) when PDFStreamForResponse() is used with invalid data.