PT-2018-3606 · Poppler+4 · Poppler+4

Published 2018-12-20 · Updated 2023-07-20 · CVE-2018-20481

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 the XRef::getEntry function in XRef.cc of the Poppler library, which mishandles unallocated XRef entries. This can be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted PDF document. The vulnerability is triggered when XRefEntry::setFlag in XRef.h is called from Parser::makeStream in Parser.cc.

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

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

BDU:2021-01283

CESA-2019_2022

CESA-2019_2713

CVE-2018-20481

DLA-1706-1

DLA-2287-1

MGASA-2019-0092

OPENSUSE-SU-2021:3854-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2021_3854-1

RHSA-2019:2022

RHSA-2019:2713

RHSA-2019_2022

RHSA-2019_2713

SUSE-SU-2021:3854-1

SUSE-SU-2023:2906-1

SUSE-SU-2023:2907-1

USN-3865-1

Affected Products

Centos

Poppler

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 198

• 🔥 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/692 · 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-2018-19058 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-20481 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20481 · 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://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/poppler · Vendor Advisory
• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/merge_requests/143 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/thread/CH33MK2BAV326CV7IKYGMFO4IYX552Z2 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-19149 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-20650 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-18267 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-20650 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3865-1 · Vendor Advisory