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CVE-2018-19060

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-11-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.71.0. There is a NULL pointer dereference in goo/GooString.h, will lead to denial of service, as demonstrated by utils/pdfdetach.cc not validating a filename of an embedded file before constructing a save path.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 18.10
• poppler: 0.71.0

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2022
• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/660
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3837-1/
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2022
• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/660
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3837-1/

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