CVE-2018-20551

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    CVE-2018-20551

    Published: 28 Dec 2018Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: A 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.

    References: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2713, https://usn.ubuntu.com/3886-1/, https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/merge_requests/146, https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/703

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 9414cc632c17afb7b78c559447b2044268f06cfc
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.72.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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