NULL pointer dereference in Poppler - CVE-2018-10768

Vulnerability identifier: #VU12893

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-10768

CWE-ID: CWE-476

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists in the AnnotPath::getCoordsLength function in Annot.h due to NULL pointer dereference. A remote attacker can cause the service to crash.

Poppler
Amazon Linux AMI
CentOS

Install update from vendor's website.

• https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106408

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