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CVE-2018-16646

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-09-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-835

Description

In Poppler 0.68.0, the Parser::getObj() function in Parser.cc may cause infinite recursion via a crafted file. A remote attacker can leverage this for a DoS attack.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 18.10
• Debian Linux: 8.0
• poppler: 0.68.0

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2022
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1622951
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00024.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00040.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00004.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00018.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3837-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3837-2/
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2022
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1622951
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00024.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00040.html

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