CVE-2018-20481
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-12-26 04:00
Modified
2024-08-05 12:05
Severity ?
Summary
XRef::getEntry in XRef.cc in Poppler 0.72.0 mishandles unallocated XRef entries, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted PDF document, when XRefEntry::setFlag in XRef.h is called from Parser::makeStream in Parser.cc.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106321Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2022
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2713
cve@mitre.orghttps://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/692Issue Tracking, Exploit, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/merge_requests/143Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00008.htmlThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00018.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3865-1/Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
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