Medium severity6.5OSV Advisory· Published Jan 3, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-20662

Description

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.

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Affected products

Poppler (software)/Popplerllm-fuzzy2 versions
<0.72.0+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <0.72.0
- (no CPE)range: poppler-0.10.0, poppler-0.11.0, poppler-0.11.1, …
osv-coords19 versions
pkg:rpm/opensuse/poppler&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.4 pkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-ESPOS pkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP1-BCL pkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP1-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Workstation%20Extension%2015%20SP2 pkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%206 pkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-ESPOS pkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015 pkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP1 pkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP5 pkg:rpm/suse/poppler-qt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP5 pkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5 pkg:rpm/suse/poppler-qt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5 pkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP5 pkg:rpm/suse/poppler-qt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP5 pkg:rpm/opensuse/poppler&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.3
< 0.62.0-150000.4.34.1+ 18 more
- (no CPE)range: < 0.62.0-150000.4.34.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.62.0-4.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.62.0-4.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.62.0-4.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.62.0-4.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.62.0-4.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.62.0-4.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.62.0-4.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.62.0-4.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.62.0-4.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.62.0-4.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.62.0-4.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.24.4-14.44.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.43.0-16.43.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.43.0-16.43.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.43.0-16.43.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.43.0-16.43.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.43.0-16.43.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.62.0-4.6.1
Xorg/Poppler
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:0.72.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Debian/linux2 versions
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Fedoraproject/Fedora3 versions
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:28:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
- cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:28:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:29:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Canonical/Ubuntu Linux4 versions
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*+ 3 more
- cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:19.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Red Hat/Enterprise Linux Server2 versions
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Red Hat/Enterprise Linux Desktop
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Red Hat/Enterprise Linux Eus4 versions
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_eus:8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 3 more
- cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_eus:8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_eus:8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_eus:8.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_eus:8.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Red Hat/Enterprise Linux Server Aus3 versions
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus:8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
- 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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Red Hat/Enterprise Linux Server Tus3 versions
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_tus:8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
- 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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Red Hat/Enterprise Linux Workstation
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/9fd5ec0e6e5f763b190f2a55ceb5427cfe851d5fnvdPatchThird Party Advisory
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2022nvdThird Party Advisory
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2713nvdThird Party Advisory
gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/706nvdThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00008.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00014.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com/4042-1/nvdThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6OSCOYM3AMFFBJWSBWY6VJVLNE5JD7YS/nvd
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BI7NLDN2HUEU4ZW3D7XPHOAEGT2CKDRO/nvd
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JQ6RABASMSIMMWMDZTP6ZWUWZPTBSVB5/nvd
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZWP5XSUG6GNRI75NYKF53KIB2CZY6QQ6/nvd

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