CVE-2018-20551

NameCVE-2018-20551
DescriptionA reachable Object::getString assertion in Poppler 0.72.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service due to construction of invalid rich media annotation assets in the AnnotRichMedia class in Annot.c.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs917525

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
poppler (PTS)buster0.71.0-5fixed
buster (security)0.71.0-5+deb10u3fixed
bullseye (security), bullseye20.09.0-3.1+deb11u1fixed
trixie, bookworm22.12.0-2fixed
sid22.12.0-2.2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
popplersourcejessie(not affected)
popplersource(unstable)0.71.0-4low917525

Notes

[stretch] - poppler <ignored> (Minor issue)
[jessie] - poppler <not-affected> (vulnerable code is not present)
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/703
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/7f87dc10b6adccd6d1b977a28b064add254aa2da

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