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CVE-2018-10768

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-05-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

There is a NULL pointer dereference in the AnnotPath::getCoordsLength function in Annot.h in an Ubuntu package for Poppler 0.24.5. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack. Later Ubuntu packages such as for Poppler 0.41.0 are not affected.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04
• Debian Linux: 8.0
• poppler: before 0.41.0 — fixed in 0.41.0
• Tower: 3.3
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 7.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: poppler 0.41.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3140
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3505
• https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106408
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00024.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3647-1/
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3140
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3505
• https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106408
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00024.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3647-1/

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