CVE-2018-20662

NameCVE-2018-20662
DescriptionIn Poppler 0.72.0, PDFDoc::setup in PDFDoc.cc allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (application crash caused by Object.h SIGABRT, because of a wrong return value from PDFDoc::setup) by crafting a PDF file in which an xref data structure is mishandled during extractPDFSubtype processing.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-1706-1, DLA-2440-1
Debian Bugs918158

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
popplersourcejessie0.26.5-2+deb8u8DLA-1706-1
popplersourcestretch0.48.0-2+deb9u4DLA-2440-1
popplersource(unstable)0.71.0-4low918158

Notes

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/706
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/7b4e372deeb716eb3fe3a54b31ed41af759224f9

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