CVE-2018-18897 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime in Poppler

CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective LifetimeCWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption10 documents8 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 64.38%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
10
Freedesktop PopplerCanonical Ubuntu LinuxDebian Linux+7 more
Timeline
PublishedNov 2
Latest updateMay 13

Description

An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.71.0. There is a memory leak in GfxColorSpace::setDisplayProfile in GfxState.cc, as demonstrated by pdftocairo.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages5 packages

▶Debianfreedesktop/poppler< 0.85.0-2+3

Also affects: Debian Linux 10.0, Ubuntu Linux 16.04, 18.04, 18.10, 19.04, Enterprise Linux 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.4, 8.6

🔴Vulnerability Details

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GHSA
GHSA-59pp-pgh2-58rp: An issue was discovered in Poppler 0↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2018-18897: An issue was discovered in Poppler 0↗2018-11-02
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CVEList
CVE-2018-18897: An issue was discovered in Poppler 0↗2018-11-02
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
poppler vulnerabilities↗2019-06-27
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Red Hat
poppler: memory leak in GfxColorSpace::setDisplayProfile in GfxState.cc↗2018-11-01
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Debian
CVE-2018-18897: poppler - An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.71.0. There is a memory leak in GfxColorSpa...↗2018
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💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-18897 poppler: memory leak in GfxColorSpace::setDisplayProfile in GfxState.cc↗2018-11-05
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-18897 mingw-poppler: poppler: memory leak in GfxColorSpace::setDisplayProfile in GfxState.cc [fedora-all]↗2018-11-05
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-18897 poppler: memory leak in GfxColorSpace::setDisplayProfile in GfxState.cc [fedora-all]↗2018-11-05
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CVE-2018-18897 — Freedesktop Poppler vulnerability | cvebase