CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-20551
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-12-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
A reachable Object::getString assertion in Poppler 0.72.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service due to construction of invalid rich media annotation assets in the AnnotRichMedia class in Annot.c.
Affected configurations
• freedesktop poppler 0.72.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.10
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2713 access.redhat.com
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/703 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/merge_requests/146 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3886-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2713 access.redhat.com
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/703 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/merge_requests/146 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3886-1/ Third Party Advisory