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CVE-2018-19059

Published: 7 November 2018

An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.71.0. There is a out-of-bounds read in EmbFile::save2 in FileSpec.cc, will lead to denial of service, as demonstrated by utils/pdfdetach.cc not validating embedded files before save attempts.

Priority

Low

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
poppler
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic
Released (0.62.0-2ubuntu2.4)
cosmic
Released (0.68.0-0ubuntu1.2)
trusty
Released (0.24.5-2ubuntu4.13)
upstream Needs triage

xenial
Released (0.41.0-0ubuntu1.9)
Patches:
upstream: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/77a30e94d96220d7e22dff5b3f0a7f296f01b118

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5
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