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GHSA-9cv5-4wqv-9w94: 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 There is no patch for hummus

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 https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-HUMMUS-3091138 https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-MUHAMMARA-3060320

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  3. CVE-2022-25892

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

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Nov 1, 2022 • Updated Nov 1, 2022

Affected versions

>= 1.0.0, <= 1.0.110

< 2.6.1

>= 3.0.0, < 3.1.1

Description

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