CVE-2018-20551

Summary

CVECVE-2018-20551
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-12-28 16:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-09-11 12:15:00 UTC
DescriptionA reachable Object::getString assertion in Poppler 0.72.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service due to construction of invalid rich media annotation assets in the AnnotRichMedia class in Annot.c.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

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 18.10 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 Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.10 All All All
Application Freedesktop Poppler 0.72.0 All All All
Application Freedesktop Poppler 0.72.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
USN-3886-1: poppler vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
a reachable abort in AnnotRichMedia::Content::Content at Annot.cc:6432 (#703) · Issues · poppler / poppler · GitLab MISC gitlab.freedesktop.org Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
Do not try to construct invalid rich media annotation assets. (!146) · Merge Requests · poppler / poppler · GitLab MISC gitlab.freedesktop.org Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 751420 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for poppler (SUSE-SU-2021:3854-1)
  • 751427 OpenSUSE Security Update for poppler (openSUSE-SU-2021:3854-1)
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