CVE-2018-20662

poppler: SIGABRT PDFDoc::setup class in PDFDoc.cc

Published Jan 3, 2019 CVSS 3.1 · 6.5 Medium EPSS 2.3% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1706-1 poppler security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2440-1 poppler security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-13213 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4042-1 poppler vulnerabilities
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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00481}

epss

{'score': 0.00468}