Vulnerability Database

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Total vulnerabilities in the database

CVE-2018-20481

XRef::getEntry in XRef.cc in Poppler 0.72.0 mishandles unallocated XRef entries, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted PDF document, when XRefEntry::setFlag in XRef.h is called from Parser::makeStream in Parser.cc.

  • Published: Dec 26, 2018
  • Updated: Apr 13, 2023
  • CVE: CVE-2018-20481
  • Severity: Medium
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 6.5
  • AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Low
  • Score: 4.3
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
freedesktop / poppler 0.72.0 0.72.0.x
canonical / ubuntu_linux 16.04 16.04.x
canonical / ubuntu_linux 14.04 14.04.x
canonical / ubuntu_linux 18.04 18.04.x
canonical / ubuntu_linux 18.10 18.10.x
debian / debian_linux 8.0 8.0.x