CVE-2018-19060

MEDIUM

Poppler 0.71.0 - Denial of Service via Embedded File Filename Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.71.0. There is a NULL pointer dereference in goo/GooString.h, will lead to denial of service, as demonstrated by utils/pdfdetach.cc not validating a filename of an embedded file before constructing a save path.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3837-1/
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/660
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2022

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0015
EPSS Percentile 34.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (5)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 14.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.10
freedesktop/poppler 0.71.0
Published Nov 07, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026