PT-2018-14774 · Poppler+5 · Poppler+5

Pwd@360Teamseri0Us · Published 2018-11-06 · Updated 2023-07-20 · CVE-2018-19060

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Poppler version 0.71.0

Description The issue is related to a NULL pointer dereference in the goo/GooString.h file. This can lead to a denial of service. The problem arises when the filename of an embedded file is not validated before constructing a save path, as demonstrated by the utils/pdfdetach.cc file.

Recommendations For Poppler version 0.71.0, consider updating to a newer version that addresses this issue, as the current version contains a NULL pointer dereference that can cause a denial of service. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

BDU:2025-12509

CESA-2019_2022

CVE-2018-19060

MGASA-2018-0465

OPENSUSE-SU-2021:3854-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2021_3854-1

RHSA-2019:2022

RHSA-2019_2022

SUSE-SU-2021:3854-1

SUSE-SU-2023:2906-1

SUSE-SU-2023:2907-1

USN-3837-1

Affected Products

Astra Linux

Centos

Poppler

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 172

• 🔥 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/660 · Exploit
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-19149 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2021-01314 · Security Note
• https://wiki.astralinux.ru/astra-linux-se47-bulletin-2025-1020SE47 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2019-01747 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-16646 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-19059 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wiki.astralinux.ru/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=158612043 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3837-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0465.html · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-20481 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-19060 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2023:2907-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-19060 · Vendor Advisory
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2019-2022.html · Vendor Advisory