PT-2018-2760 · Poppler+4 · Poppler+4

Skysider · Published 2018-12-28 · Updated 2021-12-01 · CVE-2018-20551

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 0.72.0

Description The issue is related to insufficient input validation in the Poppler library, which can lead to a denial of service. Specifically, it involves the construction of invalid rich media annotation assets in the AnnotRichMedia class in Annot.c. This can cause a reachable Object::getString assertion, allowing attackers to exploit the issue.

Recommendations For Poppler version 0.72.0, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

BDU:2019-01747

CESA-2019_2713

CVE-2018-20551

MGASA-2019-0092

OPENSUSE-SU-2021:3854-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2021_3854-1

RHSA-2019:2713

RHSA-2019_2713

SUSE-SU-2021:3854-1

USN-3886-1

Affected Products

Centos

Poppler

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 148

• 🔥 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/703 · Exploit
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-20662 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-7310 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2021:3854-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/thread/CH33MK2BAV326CV7IKYGMFO4IYX552Z2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-20551 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-20650 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-20551 · Security Note
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2019-2713.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2021-03454 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-9903 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2022-06890 · Security Note
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0092.html · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3886-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-20551 · Vendor Advisory