Medium severity · published Jul 25, 2018
CVE-2018-13988
Poppler through 0.62 contains an out of bounds read vulnerability due to an incorrect memory access that is not mapped in its memory space, as demonstrated by pdfunite
6.5
CVSS
3.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Poppler through 0.62 contains an out of bounds read vulnerability due to an incorrect memory access that is not mapped in its memory space, as demonstrated by pdfunite. This can result in memory corruption and denial of service. This may be exploitable when a victim opens a specially crafted PDF file.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.1% · higher than 88% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AT
Ansible Tower · Redhat
3.3.0 · source: NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Desktop · Redhat
7.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Server · Redhat
7.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Workstation · Redhat
7.0 · source: NVD
OC
Openshift Container Platform · Redhat
3.11 · source: NVD
PO
Poppler · Freedesktop
through 0.62.0 · source: NVD
UL
Ubuntu Linux · Canonical
14.04; 16.04; 18.04 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-13988
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-13988
Third Party Advisory
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/148661/PDFunite-0.62.0-Buffer-Overflow.html
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3140
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3505
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-13988
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1602838
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