Input validation error in Poppler - CVE-2018-20662

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Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU16830

Input validation error in Poppler - CVE-2018-20662

Published: January 7, 2019 / Updated: February 1, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU16830
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-20662
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a wrong return value from PDFDoc::setup when an xref data structure is mishandled during extractPDFSubtype processing. A remote attacker can trick the victim into opening a specially crafter PDF file cause application crash by Object.h SIGABRT.


Affected software

Poppler
Amazon Linux AMI
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
SUSE CaaS Platform
SUSE Enterprise Storage
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension
openSUSE Leap
openEuler
Fedora
libpoppler44
libpoppler44-debuginfo
poppler
poppler-debugsource
libpoppler-qt4-4-debuginfo
libpoppler60-debuginfo
poppler-tools
libpoppler-glib8-debuginfo
poppler-tools-debuginfo
libpoppler-qt4-4
libpoppler60
libpoppler-glib8
libpoppler-qt4-devel
libpoppler-cpp0-debuginfo
typelib-1_0-Poppler-0_18
libpoppler-cpp0
libpoppler-glib-devel
libpoppler-devel
mingw-poppler
libpoppler73
libpoppler73-debuginfo
libpoppler73-32bit
libpoppler73-32bit-debuginfo
poppler-cpp-devel
poppler-qt5-devel
poppler-qt5
poppler-glib-devel
poppler-glib-doc
poppler-help
poppler-debuginfo
poppler-cpp
poppler-utils
poppler-glib
poppler-devel

How to mitigate CVE-2018-20662

Install update from vendor's website.

libpoppler44 - update to 0.24.4-14.44.1
libpoppler44-debuginfo - update to 0.24.4-14.44.1
poppler - update to 0.26.5-43.24
poppler-debugsource - addressed in versions 0.43.0-16.43.1, 0.62.0-4.6.1
libpoppler-qt4-4-debuginfo - update to 0.43.0-16.43.1
libpoppler60-debuginfo - update to 0.43.0-16.43.1
poppler-tools - addressed in versions 0.43.0-16.43.1, 0.62.0-4.6.1
libpoppler-glib8-debuginfo - addressed in versions 0.43.0-16.43.1, 0.62.0-4.6.1
poppler-tools-debuginfo - addressed in versions 0.43.0-16.43.1, 0.62.0-4.6.1
libpoppler-qt4-4 - update to 0.43.0-16.43.1
libpoppler60 - update to 0.43.0-16.43.1
libpoppler-glib8 - addressed in versions 0.43.0-16.43.1, 0.62.0-4.6.1
libpoppler-qt4-devel - update to 0.43.0-16.43.1
libpoppler-cpp0-debuginfo - addressed in versions 0.43.0-16.43.1, 0.62.0-4.6.1
typelib-1_0-Poppler-0_18 - addressed in versions 0.43.0-16.43.1, 0.62.0-4.6.1
libpoppler-cpp0 - addressed in versions 0.43.0-16.43.1, 0.62.0-4.6.1
libpoppler-glib-devel - addressed in versions 0.43.0-16.43.1, 0.62.0-4.6.1
libpoppler-devel - addressed in versions 0.43.0-16.43.1, 0.62.0-4.6.1
mingw-poppler - addressed in versions 0.62.0-3.fc28, 0.67.0-4.fc29
libpoppler73 - addressed in versions 0.62.0-4.6.1, 0.62.0-150000.4.34.1
libpoppler73-debuginfo - addressed in versions 0.62.0-4.6.1, 0.62.0-150000.4.34.1
poppler - addressed in versions 0.62.0-16.fc28, 0.62.0-20.fc28, 0.67.0-12.fc29, 0.67.0-16.fc29, 0.73.0-8.fc30
libpoppler73-32bit - update to 0.62.0-150000.4.34.1
libpoppler73-32bit-debuginfo - update to 0.62.0-150000.4.34.1
poppler - addressed in versions 0.90.0-4, 0.90.0-5, 0.90.0-6
poppler-cpp-devel - addressed in versions 0.90.0-4, 0.90.0-5, 0.90.0-6
poppler-qt5-devel - addressed in versions 0.90.0-4, 0.90.0-5, 0.90.0-6
poppler-qt5 - addressed in versions 0.90.0-4, 0.90.0-5, 0.90.0-6
poppler-glib-devel - addressed in versions 0.90.0-4, 0.90.0-5, 0.90.0-6
poppler-glib-doc - addressed in versions 0.90.0-4, 0.90.0-5, 0.90.0-6
poppler-help - addressed in versions 0.90.0-4, 0.90.0-5, 0.90.0-6
poppler-debuginfo - addressed in versions 0.90.0-4, 0.90.0-5, 0.90.0-6
poppler-cpp - addressed in versions 0.90.0-4, 0.90.0-5, 0.90.0-6
poppler-utils - addressed in versions 0.90.0-4, 0.90.0-5, 0.90.0-6
poppler-debugsource - addressed in versions 0.90.0-4, 0.90.0-5, 0.90.0-6
poppler-glib - addressed in versions 0.90.0-4, 0.90.0-5, 0.90.0-6
poppler-devel - addressed in versions 0.90.0-4, 0.90.0-5, 0.90.0-6

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