CVE-2018-13988

moderate-risk

Published 2018-07-25

Poppler through 0.62 contains an out of bounds read vulnerability due to an incorrect memory access that is not mapped in its memory space, as demonstrated by pdfunite. This can result in memory corruption and denial of service. This may be exploitable when a victim opens a specially crafted PDF file.

Do I need to act?

0.65% chance of exploitation

EPSS score — low exploit probability

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 6.5/10 Medium

NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (10)

Poppler

Ubuntu Linux

Debian Linux

Ansible Tower

Openshift Container Platform

Enterprise Linux Desktop

Enterprise Linux Server

Enterprise Linux Workstation

Affected Vendors

Debian Redhat Canonical Freedesktop

References (18)

Third Party Advisory http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/148661/PDFunite-0.62.0-Buffer-Overflow.html

Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327

Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3140

Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3505

Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-13988

Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1602838

Patch https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=004e3c10df0abda214f0c293...

Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00024.html

Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/3757-1/