CVE-2018-19060

Publication date 7 November 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.71.0. There is a NULL pointer dereference in goo/GooString.h, will lead to denial of service, as demonstrated by utils/pdfdetach.cc not validating a filename of an embedded file before constructing a save path.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
poppler 18.10 cosmic
Fixed 0.68.0-0ubuntu1.2
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.4
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.9
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.13

Patch details

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Package Patch details
poppler

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.5 · Medium

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

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-3837-1
    • poppler vulnerabilities
    • 4 December 2018

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