CVE-2018-20650

Summary

CVECVE-2018-20650
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-01-01 16:29:00 UTC
Updated2023-02-11 18:12:00 UTC
DescriptionA reachable Object::dictLookup assertion in Poppler 0.72.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service due to the lack of a check for the dict data type, as demonstrated by use of the FileSpec class (in FileSpec.cc) in pdfdetach.

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
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Freedesktop Poppler 0.72.0 All All All
Application Freedesktop Poppler 0.72.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Eus 8.1 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Eus 8.2 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Eus 8.4 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Eus 8.6 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Aus 8.2 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Aus 8.4 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Aus 8.6 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Tus 8.2 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Tus 8.4 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Tus 8.6 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
USN-3865-1: poppler vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
Poppler CVE-2018-20650 Denial of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
a reachable abort in FileSpec::FileSpec in FileSpec.cc (#704) · Issues · poppler / poppler · GitLab MISC gitlab.freedesktop.org Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
FileSpec: Move the fileSpec.dictLookup call inside fileSpec.isDict if (de0c0b83) · Commits · poppler / poppler · GitLab MISC gitlab.freedesktop.org Patch, Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
[SECURITY] [DLA 1939-1] poppler security update MLIST lists.debian.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 3120-1] poppler security update MLIST lists.debian.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 2440-1] poppler security update MLIST lists.debian.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 181075 Debian Security Update for poppler (DLA 3120-1)
  • 296089 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 10.1.3 Missing (CPUAPR2019)
  • 377321 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for poppler (ALINUX2-SA-2019:0096)
  • 670666 EulerOS Security Update for poppler (EulerOS-SA-2021-2425)
  • 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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