CVE-2018-20662

MEDIUM

Poppler 0.72.0 - Denial of Service via Mishandled Xref Data Structure

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (11)

Core 11
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/706
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00008.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4042-1/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2022
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2713
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00014.html

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0059
EPSS Percentile 69.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (24)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.10
canonical/ubuntu_linux 19.04
debian/debian_linux 8.0
debian/debian_linux 9.0
fedoraproject/fedora 28
fedoraproject/fedora 29
fedoraproject/fedora 30
freedesktop/poppler 0.72.0
... and 14 more
Published Jan 03, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026