CVE-2018-16646

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-16646
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-16646.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-16646
Downstream
DEBIAN (1)
MGASA (1)
openSUSE (1)
RHSA (1)
SUSE (3)
UBUNTU (1)
Related
openSUSE (1)
SUSE (3)
Published
2018-09-06T23:29:01Z
Modified
2026-07-08T05:52:20Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

In Poppler 0.68.0, the Parser::getObj() function in Parser.cc may cause infinite recursion via a crafted file. A remote attacker can leverage this for a DoS attack.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges":  [
        {
            "cpes":  [
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "14.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "14.04"
                },
                {
                    "introduced":  "16.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "16.04"
                },
                {
                    "introduced":  "18.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "18.04"
                },
                {
                    "introduced":  "18.10"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "18.10"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product":  "canonical:ubuntu_linux"
        },
        {
            "cpes":  [
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "8.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "8.0"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product":  "debian:debian_linux"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler
Events
Introduced
c666833e4163a93451eab27c675af9ca82d11593
Last Affected
c666833e4163a93451eab27c675af9ca82d11593
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:0.68.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "introduced":  "0.68.0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected":  "0.68.0"
        }
    ],
    "source":  "CPE_STRING"
}

Affected versions

0.*
0.68.0
poppler-0.*
poppler-0.68.0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-16646.json"