podofo: NULL pointer dereference in PoDoFo::PdfColorGray::~PdfColorGray (PdfColor.cpp)

Description:
podofo is a C++ library to work with the PDF file format.

A fuzz on it discovered a null pointer dereference. The upstream project denies me to open a new ticket. So, I just will forward this on the -users mailing list.

The complete ASan output:

# podofocolor dummy $FILE foo
==5815==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: SEGV on unknown address 0x000000000000 (pc 0x7f025d243787 bp 0x7ffe33517c50 sp 0x7ffe33517be0 T0)
==5815==The signal is caused by a READ memory access.
==5815==Hint: address points to the zero page.
    #0 0x7f025d243786 in PoDoFo::PdfColorGray::~PdfColorGray() /tmp/portage/app-text/podofo-0.9.4/work/podofo-0.9.4/src/base/PdfColor.cpp:435:1
    #1 0x52c9b2 in GraphicsStack::TGraphicsStackElement::~TGraphicsStackElement() /tmp/portage/app-text/podofo-0.9.4/work/podofo-0.9.4/tools/podofocolor/graphicsstack.h:29:11
    #2 0x52c9b2 in __gnu_cxx::new_allocator::destroy(GraphicsStack::TGraphicsStackElement*) /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.9.3/include/g++-v4/ext/new_allocator.h:133
    #3 0x52c9b2 in std::deque<GraphicsStack::TGraphicsStackElement, std::allocator >::_M_pop_back_aux() /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.9.3/include/g++-v4/bits/deque.tcc:515
    #4 0x52c9b2 in std::deque<GraphicsStack::TGraphicsStackElement, std::allocator >::pop_back() /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.9.3/include/g++-v4/bits/stl_deque.h:1459
    #5 0x52c9b2 in std::stack<GraphicsStack::TGraphicsStackElement, std::deque<GraphicsStack::TGraphicsStackElement, std::allocator > >::pop() /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.9.3/include/g++-v4/bits/stl_stack.h:218
    #6 0x52c9b2 in GraphicsStack::Pop() /tmp/portage/app-text/podofo-0.9.4/work/podofo-0.9.4/tools/podofocolor/graphicsstack.cpp:48
    #7 0x522031 in ColorChanger::ReplaceColorsInPage(PoDoFo::PdfCanvas*) /tmp/portage/app-text/podofo-0.9.4/work/podofo-0.9.4/tools/podofocolor/colorchanger.cpp:190:35
    #8 0x51ed8e in ColorChanger::start() /tmp/portage/app-text/podofo-0.9.4/work/podofo-0.9.4/tools/podofocolor/colorchanger.cpp:120:15
    #9 0x51c06d in main /tmp/portage/app-text/podofo-0.9.4/work/podofo-0.9.4/tools/podofocolor/podofocolor.cpp:116:12
    #10 0x7f025bd2e61f in __libc_start_main /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.22-r4/work/glibc-2.22/csu/libc-start.c:289
    #11 0x428718 in _start (/usr/bin/podofocolor+0x428718)

AddressSanitizer can not provide additional info.
SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: SEGV /tmp/portage/app-text/podofo-0.9.4/work/podofo-0.9.4/src/base/PdfColor.cpp:435:1 in PoDoFo::PdfColorGray::~PdfColorGray()
==5815==ABORTING

Affected version:
0.9.4

Fixed version:
N/A

Commit fix:
N/A

Credit:
This bug was discovered by Agostino Sarubbo of Gentoo.

CVE:
CVE-2017-6849

Reproducer:
https://github.com/asarubbo/poc/blob/master/00175-podofo-nullptr-PoDoFo-PdfColorGray-PdfColorGray

Timeline:
2017-02-13: bug discovered
2017-03-02: bug reported to upstream
2017-03-02: blog post about the issue
2017-03-12: CVE assigned

Note:
This bug was found with American Fuzzy Lop.

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