CVE-2018-20662

CVE Details

Release Date:

2019-01-03

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.

See more information about CVE-2018-20662 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v3.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	6.5	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Low
Privileges Required:	None	User Interaction:	Required
Scope:	Unchanged	Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None	Availability Impact:	High

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 7 (evince)	ELSA-2019-2022	2019-08-13
Oracle Linux version 7 (okular)	ELSA-2019-2022	2019-08-13
Oracle Linux version 7 (poppler)	ELSA-2019-2022	2019-08-13
Oracle Linux version 8 (poppler)	ELSA-2019-2713	2019-09-12

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