Medium severity · published Jan 3, 2019
CVE-2018-20662
In Poppler 0.72.0, PDFDoc::setup in PDFDoc.cc allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (application crash caused by Object.h SIGABRT, because of a wrong return value from…
6.5
CVSS
2.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In Poppler 0.72.0, PDFDoc::setup in PDFDoc.cc allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (application crash caused by Object.h SIGABRT, because of a wrong return value from PDFDoc::setup) by crafting a PDF file in which an xref data structure is mishandled during extractPDFSubtype processing.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/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)2.3% · higher than 83% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0; 9.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux · Redhat
8.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Desktop · Redhat
7.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Eus · Redhat
8.1; 8.2; 8.4; 8.6 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Server · Redhat
7.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Server Aus · Redhat
8.2; 8.4; 8.6 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Server Tus · Redhat
8.2; 8.4; 8.6 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Workstation · Redhat
7.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
28; 29; 30 · source: NVD
PO
Poppler · Freedesktop
0.72.0 · source: NVD
UL
Ubuntu Linux · Canonical
16.04; 18.04; 18.10; 19.04 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20662
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-20662
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2022
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2713
Patch
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/9fd5ec0e6e5f763b190f2a55ceb5427cfe851d5f
Third Party Advisory
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/706
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00008.html
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00014.html
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