CVE-2018-20662

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-20662
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-20662.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-20662
Downstream
Related
Published
2019-01-03T13:29:00.237Z
Modified
2026-07-08T19:45:22.668804Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

In 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.

Database specific
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                    "introduced": "16.04"
                },
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                },
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                },
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                    "last_affected": "18.04"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "18.10"
                },
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                },
                {
                    "introduced": "19.04"
                },
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                },
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                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_eus:8.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
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                    "introduced": "7.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "7.0"
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            "vendor_product": "redhat:enterprise_linux_server",
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        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "8.2"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.2"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "8.4"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.4"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "8.6"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.6"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus:8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus:8.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus:8.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
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                    "introduced": "8.2"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.2"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "8.4"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.4"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "8.6"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.6"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "redhat:enterprise_linux_server_tus",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_tus:8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_tus:8.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_tus:8.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "7.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "7.0"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler
Events
Database specific
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    "source": [
        "CPE_STRING",
        "REFERENCES"
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:0.72.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0.72.0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "0.72.0"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

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

Database specific

vanir_signatures_modified
"2026-07-08T19:45:22Z"
source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-20662.json"
vanir_signatures
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            "length": 1244.0
        },
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "signature_type": "Function",
        "source": "https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler@9fd5ec0e6e5f763b190f2a55ceb5427cfe851d5f",
        "deprecated": false,
        "target": {
            "function": "PDFDoc::setup",
            "file": "poppler/PDFDoc.cc"
        }
    },
    {
        "id": "CVE-2018-20662-8fcffcb5",
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        },
        "signature_version": "v1",
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]