CVE-2018-13988
published 2018-07-25CVE-2018-13988: Poppler through 0.62 contains an out of bounds read vulnerability due to an incorrect memory access that is not mapped in its memory space, as demonstrated by…
PriorityP431medium6.5CVSS 3.0
AVNACLPRNUIRSUCNINAH
EPSS
3.11%
87.7th percentile
Poppler through 0.62 contains an out of bounds read vulnerability due to an incorrect memory access that is not mapped in its memory space, as demonstrated by pdfunite. This can result in memory corruption and denial of service. This may be exploitable when a victim opens a specially crafted PDF file.
Affected
15 ranges
| Vendor | Product | Version range | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | — | — |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | — | — |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | — | — |
| debian | debian_linux | — | — |
| debian | poppler | < poppler 0.69.0-2 (bookworm) | poppler 0.69.0-2 (bookworm) |
| freedesktop | poppler | <= 0.62.0 | — |
| freedesktop | poppler | >= 0 < 0.69.0-2 | 0.69.0-2 |
| freedesktop | poppler | >= 0 < 0.69.0-2 | 0.69.0-2 |
| freedesktop | poppler | >= 0 < 0.69.0-2 | 0.69.0-2 |
| freedesktop | poppler | >= 0 < 0.69.0-2 | 0.69.0-2 |
| redhat | ansible_tower | — | — |
| redhat | enterprise_linux_desktop | — | — |
| redhat | enterprise_linux_server | — | — |
| redhat | enterprise_linux_workstation | — | — |
| redhat | openshift_container_platform | — | — |
CVSS provenance
nvdv3.06.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvdv2.04.3MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
osv6.5MEDIUM
vendor_debian6.5LOW
vendor_redhat6.5MEDIUM
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Ubuntu
poppler vulnerability
vendor_ubuntu·2018-08-29
CVE-2018-13988 poppler vulnerability
Title: poppler vulnerability
Summary: poppler could be made to crash if it received specially crafted
PDF file.
Hosein Askari discovered that poppler incorrectly handled certain PDF files.
An attacker could possible use this issue to cause a denial of service.
Instructions: In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
Red Hat
poppler: out of bounds read in pdfunite
vendor_redhat·2018-07-23·CVSS 6.5
CVE-2018-13988 [MEDIUM] CWE-125 poppler: out of bounds read in pdfunite
poppler: out of bounds read in pdfunite
Poppler through 0.62 contains an out of bounds read vulnerability due to an incorrect memory access that is not mapped in its memory space, as demonstrated by pdfunite. This can result in memory corruption and denial of service. This may be exploitable when a victim opens a specially crafted PDF file.
Statement: Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having a security impact of Low, and a future update may address this flaw.
Package: poppler (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5) - Will not fix
Package: poppler (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6) - Will not fix
Package: poppler (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8) - Not affected
Debian
CVE-2018-13988: poppler - Poppler through 0.62 contains an out of bounds read vulnerability due to an inco...
vendor_debian·2018·CVSS 6.5
CVE-2018-13988 [MEDIUM] CVE-2018-13988: poppler - Poppler through 0.62 contains an out of bounds read vulnerability due to an inco...
Poppler through 0.62 contains an out of bounds read vulnerability due to an incorrect memory access that is not mapped in its memory space, as demonstrated by pdfunite. This can result in memory corruption and denial of service. This may be exploitable when a victim opens a specially crafted PDF file.
Scope: local
bookworm: resolved (fixed in 0.69.0-2)
bullseye: resolved (fixed in 0.69.0-2)
forky: resolved (fixed in 0.69.0-2)
sid: resolved (fixed in 0.69.0-2)
trixie: resolved (fixed in 0.69.0-2)
GHSA
GHSA-hj59-vghc-34x7: Poppler through 0
ghsa_unreviewed·2022-05-14
CVE-2018-13988 [MEDIUM] CWE-125 GHSA-hj59-vghc-34x7: Poppler through 0
Poppler through 0.62 contains an out of bounds read vulnerability due to an incorrect memory access that is not mapped in its memory space, as demonstrated by pdfunite. This can result in memory corruption and denial of service. This may be exploitable when a victim opens a specially crafted PDF file.
OSV
CVE-2018-13988: Poppler through 0
osv·2018-07-25·CVSS 6.5
CVE-2018-13988 [MEDIUM] CVE-2018-13988: Poppler through 0
Poppler through 0.62 contains an out of bounds read vulnerability due to an incorrect memory access that is not mapped in its memory space, as demonstrated by pdfunite. This can result in memory corruption and denial of service. This may be exploitable when a victim opens a specially crafted PDF file.
No detection rules found.
No public exploits indexed.
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-13988 mingw-poppler: poppler: buffer overflow in pdfunite [fedora-all]
bugzilla·2018-07-23·CVSS 6.5
CVE-2018-13988 [MEDIUM] CVE-2018-13988 mingw-poppler: poppler: buffer overflow in pdfunite [fedora-all]
CVE-2018-13988 mingw-poppler: poppler: buffer overflow in pdfunite [fedora-all]
This is an automatically created tracking bug! It was created to ensure
that one or more security vulnerabilities are fixed in affected versions
of fedora-all.
For comments that are specific to the vulnerability please use bugs filed
against the "Security Response" product referenced in the "Blocks" field.
For more information see:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security/TrackingBugs
When submitting as an update, use the fedpkg template provided in the next
comment(s). This will include the bug IDs of this tracking bug as well as
the relevant top-level CVE bugs.
Please also mention the CVE IDs being fixed in the RPM changelog and the
fedpkg commit message.
NOTE: this issue affects multiple supported versio
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-13988 poppler: buffer overflow in pdfunite [fedora-all]
bugzilla·2018-07-23·CVSS 6.5
CVE-2018-13988 [MEDIUM] CVE-2018-13988 poppler: buffer overflow in pdfunite [fedora-all]
CVE-2018-13988 poppler: buffer overflow in pdfunite [fedora-all]
This is an automatically created tracking bug! It was created to ensure
that one or more security vulnerabilities are fixed in affected versions
of fedora-all.
For comments that are specific to the vulnerability please use bugs filed
against the "Security Response" product referenced in the "Blocks" field.
For more information see:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security/TrackingBugs
When submitting as an update, use the fedpkg template provided in the next
comment(s). This will include the bug IDs of this tracking bug as well as
the relevant top-level CVE bugs.
Please also mention the CVE IDs being fixed in the RPM changelog and the
fedpkg commit message.
NOTE: this issue affects multiple supported versions of Fedora. W
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-13988 poppler: out of bounds read in pdfunite
bugzilla·2018-07-18·CVSS 6.5
CVE-2018-13988 [MEDIUM] CVE-2018-13988 poppler: out of bounds read in pdfunite
CVE-2018-13988 poppler: out of bounds read in pdfunite
An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the Poppler library as demonstrated by pdfunite. This may result in a denial of service or other undefined behavior. This flaw may be exploitable when a victim opens a specially crafted PDF file.
Upstream Patch: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=004e3c10df0abda214f0c293f9e269fdd979c5ee
Discussion:
Acknowledgments:
Name: Hosein Askari
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Created mingw-poppler tracking bugs for this issue:
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1607462]
Created poppler tracking bugs for this issue:
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1607461]
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Downgrading this to low. No obvious, quickly discovered evidence that this leads to a buffer overflow. Looks like an out of bounds read triggering a segfault.
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/148661/PDFunite-0.62.0-Buffer-Overflow.htmlhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3140https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3505https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-13988https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1602838https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=004e3c10df0abda214f0c293f9e269fdd979c5eehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00024.htmlhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3757-1/http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/148661/PDFunite-0.62.0-Buffer-Overflow.htmlhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3140https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3505https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-13988https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1602838https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=004e3c10df0abda214f0c293f9e269fdd979c5eehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00024.htmlhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3757-1/
2018-07-25
Published