pdfunite is a part of poppler package in ubuntu. pdfunite is prone to a
local bufferoverflow when a malformed pdf is used to unite with another
pdf.
Following is the gdb stack trace:
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007ffff7abf948 in XRef::getEntry(int, bool) () from
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpoppler.so.58
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpoppler.so.58
unsigned int, int, int, std::set<Dict*, std::less<Dict*>,
std::allocator<Dict*> >*) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpoppler.so.58
unsigned int, int, int, std::set<Dict*, std::less<Dict*>,
std::allocator<Dict*> >*) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpoppler.so.58
unsigned int, int, int, std::set<Dict*, std::less<Dict*>,
std::allocator<Dict*> >*) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpoppler.so.58
unsigned int, int, int, std::set<Dict*, std::less<Dict*>,
std::allocator<Dict*> >*) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpoppler.so.58
unsigned int, int, int, std::set<Dict*, std::less<Dict*>,
std::allocator<Dict*> >*) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpoppler.so.58
unsigned int, int, int, std::set<Dict*, std::less<Dict*>,
std::allocator<Dict*> >*) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpoppler.so.58
unsigned int, int, int, std::set<Dict*, std::less<Dict*>,
std::allocator<Dict*> >*) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpoppler.so.58
unsigned int, int, int, std::set<Dict*, std::less<Dict*>,
std::allocator<Dict*> >*) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpoppler.so.58
unsigned int, int, int, std::set<Dict*, std::less<Dict*>,
std::allocator<Dict*> >*) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpoppler.so.58
unsigned int, int, int, std::set<Dict*, std::less<Dict*>,
std::allocator<Dict*> >*) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpoppler.so.58
argv=0x7fffffffe0b8, init=<optimized out>, fini=<optimized out>,
rtld_fini=<optimized out>, stack_end=0x7fffffffe0a8) at
../csu/libc-start.c:291
$ pdfunite -v
pdfunite version 0.41.0
Proof of Concept:
https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/44490.zip