CVE-2018-20481

Publication date 25 December 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

XRef::getEntry in XRef.cc in Poppler 0.72.0 mishandles unallocated XRef entries, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted PDF document, when XRefEntry::setFlag in XRef.h is called from Parser::makeStream in Parser.cc.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
poppler 18.10 cosmic
Fixed 0.68.0-0ubuntu1.4
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.6
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.11
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.15

Patch details

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Package Patch details
poppler

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.5 · Medium

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-3865-1
    • poppler vulnerabilities
    • 22 January 2019

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