CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-19149

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Nov 10, 2018 | Modified: Aug 06, 2019
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
3.3 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
LOW

Poppler before 0.70.0 has a NULL pointer dereference in _poppler_attachment_new when called from poppler_annot_file_attachment_get_attachment.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Poppler Freedesktop * 0.70.0 (excluding)
Poppler Ubuntu bionic *
Poppler Ubuntu cosmic *
Poppler Ubuntu trusty *
Poppler Ubuntu xenial *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat evince-0:3.28.2-8.el7 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat okular-0:4.10.5-7.el7 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat poppler-0:0.26.5-38.el7 *

Potential Mitigations

References