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CVE-2018-20662

Publication date 3 January 2019

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
poppler 19.04 disco
Fixed 0.74.0-0ubuntu1.2
18.10 cosmic
Fixed 0.68.0-0ubuntu1.7
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.9
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.14
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Patch details

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Package Patch details
poppler

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5 · Medium
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

References

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