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

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
poppler Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Released (0.62.0-2ubuntu2.9)
	cosmic	Released (0.68.0-0ubuntu1.7)
	disco	Released (0.74.0-0ubuntu1.2)
	trusty	Does not exist (trusty was deferred [2019-03-28])
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Released (0.41.0-0ubuntu1.14)
	Patches: upstream: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/7b4e372deeb716eb3fe3a54b31ed41af759224f9

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

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