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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-20481: Security patch for poppler (Multiple Advisories)

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Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Dec 26, 2018
Added
Apr 27, 2020
Modified
May 20, 2026

Description

XRef::getEntry in XRef.cc in Poppler 0.72.0 mishandles unallocated XRef entries, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted PDF document, when XRefEntry::setFlag in XRef.h is called from Parser::makeStream in Parser.cc.

Solutions

amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-poppleramazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-poppler-cppamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-poppler-cpp-develamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-poppler-debuginfoamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-poppler-demosamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-poppler-develamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-poppler-glibamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-poppler-glib-develamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-poppler-qtamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-poppler-qt-develamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-poppler-utils

References

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