CVE-2018-13988

Summary

CVECVE-2018-13988
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-07-25 23:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-04-25 14:16:00 UTC
DescriptionPoppler through 0.62 contains an out of bounds read vulnerability due to an incorrect memory access that is not mapped in its memory space, as demonstrated by pdfunite. This can result in memory corruption and denial of service. This may be exploitable when a victim opens a specially crafted PDF file.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Application Freedesktop Poppler All All All All
Application Redhat Ansible Tower 3.3.0 All All All
Application Redhat Ansible Tower 3.3.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7.0 All All All
Application Redhat Openshift Container Platform 3.11 All All All
Application Redhat Openshift Container Platform 3.11 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
USN-3757-1: poppler vulnerability | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
Bug 1102531 – VUL-1: poppler: CVE-2018-13988 poppler: buffer overflow in pdfunite CONFIRM bugzilla.novell.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
1602838 – (CVE-2018-13988) CVE-2018-13988 poppler: out of bounds read in pdfunite CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
PDFunite 0.62.0 Buffer Overflow ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
poppler/poppler - The poppler pdf rendering library (mirrored from https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler) CONFIRM cgit.freedesktop.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 1562-1] poppler security update MLIST lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 296090 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 5.1.3 Missing (CPUJAN2019)
  • 751420 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for poppler (SUSE-SU-2021:3854-1)
  • 751427 OpenSUSE Security Update for poppler (openSUSE-SU-2021:3854-1)
  • 754197 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for poppler (SUSE-SU-2023:2907-1)
  • 754198 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for poppler (SUSE-SU-2023:2906-1)
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