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CVE-2018-20662
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2019-01-03 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-20
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.
Affected products
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04, 18.04, 18.10, 19.04
- Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
- Fedoraproject Fedora: 28, 29, 30
- poppler: 0.72.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 8.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 7.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Eus: 8.1, 8.2, 8.4, 8.6
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 7.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 8.2, 8.4, 8.6
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: 8.2, 8.4, 8.6
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 7.0
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2022
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2713
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/9fd5ec0e6e5f763b190f2a55ceb5427cfe851d5f
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/706
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00008.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00014.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6OSCOYM3AMFFBJWSBWY6VJVLNE5JD7YS/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BI7NLDN2HUEU4ZW3D7XPHOAEGT2CKDRO/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JQ6RABASMSIMMWMDZTP6ZWUWZPTBSVB5/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZWP5XSUG6GNRI75NYKF53KIB2CZY6QQ6/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4042-1/
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2022
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