CVE-2018-20662
Published: 3 January 2019
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.
Priority
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
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poppler Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
bionic |
Released
(0.62.0-2ubuntu2.9)
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| cosmic |
Released
(0.68.0-0ubuntu1.7)
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| disco |
Released
(0.74.0-0ubuntu1.2)
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| trusty |
Does not exist
(trusty was deferred [2019-03-28])
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| upstream |
Needs triage
|
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| xenial |
Released
(0.41.0-0ubuntu1.14)
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Patches: upstream: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/7b4e372deeb716eb3fe3a54b31ed41af759224f9 |
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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:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |