FKIE_CVE-2018-20662

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2019-01-03 13:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:53
Severity
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2022Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2713Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/9fd5ec0e6e5f763b190f2a55ceb5427cfe851d5fPatch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/706Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00008.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00014.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6OSCOYM3AMFFBJWSBWY6VJVLNE5JD7YS/
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BI7NLDN2HUEU4ZW3D7XPHOAEGT2CKDRO/
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JQ6RABASMSIMMWMDZTP6ZWUWZPTBSVB5/
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZWP5XSUG6GNRI75NYKF53KIB2CZY6QQ6/
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4042-1/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2022Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2713Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/9fd5ec0e6e5f763b190f2a55ceb5427cfe851d5fPatch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/706Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00008.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00014.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6OSCOYM3AMFFBJWSBWY6VJVLNE5JD7YS/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BI7NLDN2HUEU4ZW3D7XPHOAEGT2CKDRO/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JQ6RABASMSIMMWMDZTP6ZWUWZPTBSVB5/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZWP5XSUG6GNRI75NYKF53KIB2CZY6QQ6/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/4042-1/Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
freedesktop poppler 0.72.0
debian debian_linux 8.0
debian debian_linux 9.0
fedoraproject fedora 28
fedoraproject fedora 29
fedoraproject fedora 30
canonical ubuntu_linux 16.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 18.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 18.10
canonical ubuntu_linux 19.04
redhat enterprise_linux 8.0
redhat enterprise_linux_desktop 7.0
redhat enterprise_linux_eus 8.1
redhat enterprise_linux_eus 8.2
redhat enterprise_linux_eus 8.4
redhat enterprise_linux_eus 8.6
redhat enterprise_linux_server 7.0
redhat enterprise_linux_server_aus 8.2
redhat enterprise_linux_server_aus 8.4
redhat enterprise_linux_server_aus 8.6
redhat enterprise_linux_server_tus 8.2
redhat enterprise_linux_server_tus 8.4
redhat enterprise_linux_server_tus 8.6
redhat enterprise_linux_workstation 7.0
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