CVE-2018-20551

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-20551
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-20551.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-20551
Downstream
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Published
2018-12-28T16:29:05Z
Modified
2026-10-20T10:50:24Z
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

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.

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":  [
                {
                    "range":  [
                        {
                            "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"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler
Events
Introduced
9414cc632c17afb7b78c559447b2044268f06cfc
Last Affected
9414cc632c17afb7b78c559447b2044268f06cfc
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:0.72.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "0.72.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "0.72.0"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_STRING"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

0.*
0.72.0
poppler-0.*
poppler-0.72.0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-20551.json"