CVE-2018-13988

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    CVE-2018-13988

    Published: 25 Jul 2018Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Poppler 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.

    References: http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/148661/PDFunite-0.62.0-Buffer-Overflow.html, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3140, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3505, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00024.html, https://usn.ubuntu.com/3757-1/, https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-13988, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1602838, https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=004e3c10df0abda214f0c293f9e269fdd979c5ee

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    poppler-0.62.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
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    Confidentiality
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
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    High