CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-20481

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Dec 26, 2018 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
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
MEDIUM

XRef::getEntry in XRef.cc in Poppler 0.72.0 mishandles unallocated XRef entries, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted PDF document, when XRefEntry::setFlag in XRef.h is called from Parser::makeStream in Parser.cc.

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 0.72.0 (including) 0.72.0 (including)
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 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat poppler-0:0.66.0-11.el8_0.12 *
Poppler Ubuntu bionic *
Poppler Ubuntu cosmic *
Poppler Ubuntu devel *
Poppler Ubuntu trusty *
Poppler Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References