| Name | CVE-2018-20551 |
| Description | A 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 917525 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| poppler (PTS) | bullseye (security), bullseye | 20.09.0-3.1+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 22.12.0-2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 24.08.0-3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| poppler | source | jessie | (not affected) | | | |
| poppler | source | (unstable) | 0.71.0-4 | low | | 917525 |
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