CVE-2018-13988

Publication date 25 July 2018

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

Poppler through 0.62 contains an out of bounds read vulnerability due to an incorrect memory access that is not mapped in its memory space, as demonstrated by pdfunite. This can result in memory corruption and denial of service. This may be exploitable when a victim opens a specially crafted PDF file.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
poppler 18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.2
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.8
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.12

Patch details

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Package Patch details
poppler

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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