UBUNTU-CVE-2018-20662

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-20662

    Published: 3 Jan 2019Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-20662
    Aliases:
    USN-4042-1

    Summary:

    Details: In Poppler 0.72.0, PDFDoc::setup in PDFDoc.cc allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (application crash caused by Object.h SIGABRT, because of a wrong return value from PDFDoc::setup) by crafting a PDF file in which an xref data structure is mishandled during extractPDFSubtype processing.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-20662, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4042-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-20662

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: poppler

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.41.0-0ubuntu1.14

    Affected versions

    0.33.0-0ubuntu3

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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