CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-20662

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2019-01-03 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-01-03
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/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

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.

Affected configurations

• 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

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References