CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-19532

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Nov 26, 2018 | Modified: Dec 19, 2018
CVSS 3.x
8.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the function PdfTranslator::setTarget() in pdftranslator.cpp of PoDoFo 0.9.6, while creating the PdfXObject, as demonstrated by podofoimpose. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service.

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
Podofo Podofo_project 0.9.6 (including) 0.9.6 (including)
Libpodofo Ubuntu bionic *
Libpodofo Ubuntu cosmic *
Libpodofo Ubuntu esm-apps/bionic *
Libpodofo Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Libpodofo Ubuntu trusty *
Libpodofo Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References