CVE-2018-13988 Information

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/148661/PDFunite-0.62.0-Buffer-Overflow.html https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3140 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3505 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-13988 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1602838 https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=004e3c10df0abda214f0c293f9e269fdd979c5ee https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00024.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/3757-1/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

6.5